Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Oyster Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oyster Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.30074, -8.57061
- SMR number
- SL008-208001-
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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located within an enclosure (SL008-208----). This possible hut site is evident as a clearly defined circular feature (diam. c. 4m). It is located in the E half of the large subrectangular enclosure, which has been dated to the 13th century AD (Read, www.excavations.ie 2012:537). There is a shell midden (SL008-207----) dated to the Iron Age on the shoreline immediately to S of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.