Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Castletown, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.29282, -8.99490
- SMR number
- SL011-002----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, situated adjacent to the S shore of Sligo Bay. Not marked on the 1837 OS 6-inch map but shown on the 1913 edition as a hachured angular arc. Remains of a levelled bank (Wth. c. 4.3m; H 0.4m) can be discerned extending in an arc (C c. 60m) from NNE–S. Its original function and extent are unclear. It may be the remnants of an enclosure or of a field boundary.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.