Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballygilgan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygilgan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.34831, -8.56958
- SMR number
- SL008-194----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level ground at base of a narrow NE-SW orientated wet depression between two low hillocks, in gently undulating pasture. Roughly crescent shaped, slightly domed, mound (dims. 18m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE; max. H 0.4m) of sod-covered charcoal rich earth. The opening (Wth 4m) of the crescent faces SE. A NE-SW orientated wire and post field fence abuts the base of the mound at NW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.