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Enclosure

Bunowna, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Bunowna, 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
Bunowna
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.28897, -8.94977
SMR number
SL011-143002-

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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

Located in the N half of a modern walled rectangular field, located in gently undulating coastal grassland. Ground falls very gently for 300m to N ending at a rocky shoreline. The Easkey River lies to E, opening into the sea c. 600m to NE of the enclosure. Subrectangular area (c. 24m NE–SW; c. 15-20m NW–SE) defined by the barely discernible undulations of a levelled bank. The outline of the bank can still be traced in part at S, W and N but is almost entirely obliterated on the E side. The interior is not raised above exterior ground level. Remnants of a levelled field boundary, part of a field system (SL011-143003-), extend to S from the S side of the enclosure. Remnants of another field boundary extend for c. 40m to NW, linking this enclosure to another enclosure (SL011-143001-).

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 31 December 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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