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Glencarbury, County Sligo, Ireland

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Townland
Glencarbury
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.35568, -8.41224
SMR number
SL009-004----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Not indicated on either the 1837 or 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated atop an exposed summit of rocky hillock, in undulating mountain pasture on slight NNE-facing slope c.100m to the N of a now disused barytes mine. Views are good to excellent in all directions except W where obscured by higher ground. Complex, comprising the remains of three buildings (SL009-004001-; SL009-004002-; SL009-004003-), at least two of which are booley huts or small houses, associated with a field (SL009-004----). The field comprises a roughly rectangular area (L N-S 16m; Wth E-W 14m) defined by the footings of drystone walls. The E wall is absent. The field walls enclose enclosing a booley hut (SL009-004002-) at the NE corner and a second building (SL009-004003-) at NW corner. The remains are almost certainly post-1700 AD in date.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 02 August 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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