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Enclosure

Dromard, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Dromard, 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
Dromard
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.20903, -8.65810
SMR number
SL019-226----

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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 pasture, situated on a ridge top, close to the break of slope on the SE side where the ground falls gradually for c. 50m towards a stream. At the N edge of the ridge there is a steeper slope, at the base of which there are two holy wells (SL019-151001-; SL019-151002-) located c. 130m N of the enclosure. Excellent views over undulating grassland W, N and E; overlooked to S by rising slopes of Ox Mountains. Slightly raised, sub-circular or square area (17.7m N-S; 17m E-W) defined NW-SE by a low scarp (H 0.55 at N, 1.2m at E). At N a kerb-like line of stone is visible in a short, eroded section of the scarp. Elsewhere the perimeter is poorly preserved. On the S side it was incorporated into a field boundary, shown on the 1913 OS 6-inch map, which has since been removed, and heaps of field clearance stones are piled along its line and on the poorly defined W side of the enclosure. The interior has an uneven surface broken by much sod-covered stones and low stony heaps.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 12 May 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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