Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Inishkeen Island, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishkeen Island
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43905, -8.16062
- SMR number
- LE002-023004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Iron slag was found on the N shore of Inisheen island in the 1940s within the Friars Garden (SMR file), which suggests that iron-working may have been practiced, but no slag was encountered on this occasion and the precise location of the original discovery is not known.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 December, 2015
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.