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Promontory fort - coastal

Kilkilloge, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - coastal, Kilkilloge, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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