Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Treenode More
- Coordinates
- 54.43114, -8.65230
- SMR number
- SL001-013001-
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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
Located 270m to SE of an ecclesiastical enclosure/cashel (SL001-001001-), over cliffs.
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership. Drystone rubble walls form an enclosure which measures 4.5 m east/west by 3.5 m north/south within walls up to 1 m thick and 1.4 m high on the south or seaward slope, but 0.8 m high elsewhere. The walls include frequent small flat slabs and are roughly coursed to produce a sound build with a fair-faced finish. There is a narrow entrance on the west side (facing Treenode Beg leacht (SL001-014001-) 0.7 m wide; this is spanned by an edge-set sill at the inner wall face.
There is a leacht (SL001-013003-), known as Treenode More, and cross slab (SL001-013002-) within this enclosure. Another leacht (SL001-014001-) is located outside the enclosure, a few meters to W.
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
Date of upload: 19 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.