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Booley hut

Glencarbury, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Booley hut, Glencarbury, 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
Glencarbury
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.35577, -8.41210
SMR number
SL009-004001-

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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

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----). This house is located at centre of the complex, in the NE corner of the field. It is rectangular in plan (dims. 3.9m N-S; 2.3m E-W) defined by walls of irregular rubble limestone, un-coursed and un-bonded (max. H 1.55m; T 0.65m). Doorway (Wth 1.05m) at NW corner. Roof gone. Floor rocky and apparently un-surfaced. 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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