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Enclosure

Shancough (Tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Shancough, 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
Shancough (Tirerrill By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.09824, -8.26803
SMR number
SL035-051----

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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)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, straddling the summit of a ridge. An oval raised area (64m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 2.75m), apart from a short section at SE where the scarp has been removed due to a small quarry pit (diam. 6m). The base of the scarp is surrounded by a gently sloping platform (Wth 10-14m) which is in turn defined by a stone-lined scarp (H 1.3m) SE-NE. Drystone field boundary walls have been constructed against the face of the outer scarp at SSE and another lies along the line of the now absent scarp NE-SE. Drystone walls abut the outer scarp at W, NNW, N, NE and SE. Known locally as a 'fort'.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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