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Moated site

Drumcliff South, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Drumcliff South, 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
Drumcliff South
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.32719, -8.48050
SMR number
SL008-085----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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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

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

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