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Enclosure

Rathlee, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathlee, 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
Rathlee
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.27603, -9.03820
SMR number
SL011-145----

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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

In level, lowlying average pasture. There is a spring well c. 50m to SSE. This enclosure survives as a very low-profile, subrectangular or roughly trapezoidal area (34m E–W; 38m N–S at W, 27m at E) defined on the N, E and S by a slight scarp (H 0.3-0.4m) outside which is a shallow fosse (Wth 2.5-3m; D 0.4m). The enclosing elements are poorly defined but more easily traced on the E and S sides. The enclosure is bordered on the W side by a modern field fence/property boundary flanked by field ditches. Roughly in the centre of the E half of the interior is a shallow oblong depression (9-10m N–S; 6m E-W). Outside the fosse at S is a slightly raised, flat-topped area (Wth 7m N–S) bordered on its S side by a traces of another fosse or field ditch.

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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