Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castlegal (carbury By., Glencar Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegal (carbury By., Glencar Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.31696, -8.42141
- SMR number
- SL009-062001-
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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 a locally prominent rise on a slight S-facing slope, in elevated mountain pasture, on the W slopes of Cope's Mountain. Oval area (5.6m E-W; 4.65m N-S) enclosed by a very low, broad bank (Wth 2m; int. H 15m) of earth and rubble limestone. A poorly defined break (Wth 0.7m) in the bank at W appears to mark the position of the original entrance. A slight roughly oval hollow (2.75m N-S; 2.55m E-W) of uncertain significance is located against the inner face of the bank at NNE defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.15m; int. H 0.3m) at SW-NW, by the bank of the enclosure at NW-NE and by a slight inward facing scarp at NE-SW. A cross slab (SL009-062002-) is located immediately to the SSW of the hollow to S of centre within the enclosure. A standing stone (SL009-062003-) is located at the external base of the bank of the enclosure at N.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Deer parkunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.