Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Cherry Island, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cherry Island
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04992, -7.70042
- SMR number
- LE025-061002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The castle (LE025-061001-) is within a D-shaped enclosure (dims 31mN-S; 26m E-W) defined by a wall (Wth c. 1m; H 0.5m), with a cairn containing a kiln (LE025-061003-) overlying the enclosure wall at W. No facing-stones are visible and an entrance is not detected.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 July, 2017
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.