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Enclosure

Alternan Park, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Alternan Park, 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
Alternan Park
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.27166, -8.89761
SMR number
SL011-121----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In NE corner of a pasture field, located on a slight E-facing slope on top of a ridge, on the W edge of a wooded ravine, and overlooking the sea c. 200m to N. Along the E edge of the enclosure the ground falls precipitously into the ravine, but immediately to N the slope becomes more gradual allowing relatively easy access to the Ballymeeny River at the base of the ravine. Rectangular area (20m NNW-SSE; 14m WSW-ENE) enclosed on the S, W and N sides by an earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.25m). The bank has been levelled and appears as a barely discernible sod-covered rise (Wth c. 2-2.5m). Outside the bank, on the S side, there is a fosse, evident as a shallow depression (Wth c. 2m). A slight rise on the exterior edge of the fosse appears to be the remnants of an external bank. No enclosing element is evident on the E side where the enclosure is defined only by the steep ravine slope. The interior of the enclosure slopes down gently from W to E.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 2 july 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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