Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Doonkelly, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonkelly
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28993, -8.29986
- SMR number
- LE010-076----
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
Situated on NW facing slope of rising land inupland mountain pasture.One of a group of 5 hut sites (LE010-077/078/079/081) in close proximity to each other.The remains of grass-covered foundations of a subrectangular area (int. dims. 6.5m; 2.4m) which is orientated along the slope of the land on which it is situated.There are nearby field walls (wall T 0.6m) and several large field clearance cairns in close proximity which is all suggestive of an 18th century clustered upland settlement in the form of a clochan with associated outbuildings.
Date of upload: 14 April, 2016
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.