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Enclosure

Ballyfaris, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyfaris, 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
Ballyfaris
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.24966, -8.76912
SMR number
SL012-076001-

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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

Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low rise in undulating pasture. Roughly L-shaped raised area (dims: horizontal arm c.45m E-W; vertical arm 34m N-S; Wth. c.33m) enclosed on the N and E sides by the remains of a bank of earth and stone which is irregular in plan (Wth. 3.8m; H 0.6m). Elsewhere the defining element is modern field boundaries. At the outer foot of the bank on the N part of the W side is a largely infilled fosse (Wth. 2m), a second, low bank (Wth. 3.2m; H 0.2m), a second infilled fosse (Wth. 2m; D 0.1m) and a third bank (Wth. 3m; H 0.3m). Within the NE part of the internal area is a hut site (SL012-076002-) Situated a short distance E is a low mound (see SL 012-076003-).

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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