Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Rosses Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosses Upper
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.31162, -8.54746
- SMR number
- SL008-104003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the SW side of the interior of enclosure (SL008-104002-), against the inner face of the bank of Rosses Upper rath (SL008-104001-). Circular flat-bottomed depression (diam. 2.4m) defined by an bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.3m). A break (Wth 0.8m) in the bank at N marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.