Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Kilkilloge, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkilloge
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not marked
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.46941, -8.46836
- SMR number
- SL002-001----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not marked as an antiquity on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Approx. triangular-shaped (max. dims. 33.5m x 23m), N-facing promontory defined by high, steep cliffs except on the landward (NE) side where it is defended by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 3m; H 0.3m) with an external fosse (Wth. 3m; D 0.5m). At the outer lip of the fosse is a second bank (Wth. 3m; H 0.5m). A modern stone wall divides the enclosed area from the banks and fosse. The OS Letters (1837, 174) record that this monument was called 'Dún Balra'.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 07 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.