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Enclosure

Quigabar, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Quigabar, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Quigabar
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.24386, -9.06261
SMR number
SL010-037----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in lowlying coastal pasture. A slightly raised, irregular- or roughly kidney-shaped area (19.5m NE–SW; 13m NW–SE max. at NE, 9m at SW) defined on the perimeter by a low earthen bank (Wth 1-1.2m; int. H 0.1-02m; ext. H 0.4m at NE, 0.45-0.5m at SW), and divided into three compartments, the smallest of which projects to the W. The larger, SW part consists of an oblong area (c. 19m NE–SW; c. 9m NW–SE) divided by a low scarp into two subcircular compartments of roughly equal size: subcircular, NE compartment (8m NW–SE; 9m NE–SW); SW compartment (9m NW–SE; 10.5m NE–SW). Abutting the NW side of the NE compartment, and separated from it by a low bank, is the third and smallest compartment (7.3 NE–SW; 3.8-4m NW–SE), oval in plan, which projects to W. There are two narrow breaks in the bank of this third compartment: one (Wth 0.6) at W connecting with the exterior and one (Wth 0.5m) at E connecting with the NE compartment. The function and date of this enclosure is unclear. There is a rectangular enclosure (SL010-036----) 50m to N in the same field.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 23 September 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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