Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Drumcliff South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcliff South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.32719, -8.48050
- SMR number
- SL008-085----
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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
Situated on S bank of Drumcliff River in low-lying wet pasture. Roughly D-shaped area (dims. c.45m NW-SE; c.30m NE-SW) enclosed by a scarp of earth (ext. H 0.85m). At the external foot of the scarp is a fosse (Wth 11.4m; D 0.65m). The scarped edge and the fosse enclose the site SSE-NW. From NW-ENE the site is defined by a straight NW-SE orientated stretch of the Drumcliff River and from ENE-SSE by a straight NE-SW orientated field drain. The fosse has a very broad flat-bottomed profile and is waterlogged. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is divided into approximately two halves by a NE-SW orientated fosse-like depression (L 20m; Wth 4-6m; D 0.45m) that lies slightly to W of centre. A slightly raised rectangular area (dims. 17m NW-SE; 15m NE-SW) defined by an irregular scarp (H 0.3m) lies on the NE side of the interior in the angle between the river and the drain.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.