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Enclosure

Cloonlaheen, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cloonlaheen, 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
Cloonlaheen
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.99479, -8.54237
SMR number
SL044-029002-

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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)
  • 1811 · 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 pasture, on the NW end of a drumlin ridge. Described in 1994 (SMR (1989) file) as an oval area (int. diam. 77m N-S; 160m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) with a wide external fosse (Wth 6.8m; D 0.5m). A rectangular enclosure (SL044-029001-) was in the N half of the sloping interior. A stream was described as skirting the S perimeter c. 9m from the edge of the fosse. During a subsequent inspection, no remains of the fosse or any other enclosing elements could be identified although the rectangular enclosure (SL044-029001-) is still extant. An aerial photograph taken in September 2003 does not show any of the features mentioned in the 1994 field report.

Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 20 June 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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