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Enclosure

Ballymeeny (Jones), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballymeeny (Jones), 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
Ballymeeny (Jones)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.26759, -8.91241
SMR number
SL011-136002-

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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 rough, wettish pasture, located on a low NW–SE ridge, immediately to S of a rath (SL011-136----) and hut site (SL011-136001-). A subrectangular area (21m NW–SE; 18.4m NE–SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m, at SE) but open on the NW side. The enclosure has a rather irregular shape. The bank at the N corner, which lies 2m S of the rath, is expanded to a width of c. 5m. The bank on the SE side describes a somewhat meandering line, bowing outwards in a gentle curve. The E corner appears rounded rather than angular. The bank is gapped and poorly preserved on the SE side and also on the SW side, where it may have been incorporated into a field fence on a NW–SE axis. The function of this enclosure, and its relationship to the rath, is unclear. It may be the remnant of a small field plot.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 22 April 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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