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Enclosure

Lavagh (Tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Lavagh, 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
Lavagh (Tireragh By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.20938, -8.68464
SMR number
SL019-146----

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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

Situated on a N-facing terrace on the lower slopes of the Ox Mountains. Oval area (dims. 24m E-W; 16m N-S). This is divided into unequal portions by a N-S field wall, flanked on its E side by a deep drain. At the smaller portion of the site, W of this, the perimeter is defined by the remains of a collapsed stone wall (Wth. 1.4m - 3m; int. H 0.25m - 0.45m). At the larger portion only ephemeral traces of the wall are identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. A short distance E of the field wall which divides the site is a abrupt drop in ground level (D 1.2m), the result of an artificial scarp or quarry which extends N-S for several metres. The smaller portion of the site, W of the dividing field wall, lies within a plantation of coniferous trees.

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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