Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Breaghwy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breaghwy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.37522, -8.58115
- SMR number
- SL005-070----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight W-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Approximately three-quarters of the enclosure have been removed and the remainder disturbed by modern drainage channels. Roughly wedge-shaped raised area (dims. c.15m N-S; c.20m E-W) defined by modern field boundaries and drainage channels. The platform is defined by a curving drainage channel SE-NW and by a linear E-W orientated field boundary bank NW-NE and by a linear N-S orientated drainage channel NE-SE. Original entrance not recognisable. The interior is raised c.1.7m above external ground level and is slightly domed in profile.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.