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Hut site

Alternan Park, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Alternan Park, 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
Alternan Park
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.26909, -8.89853
SMR number
SL011-122----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In an expanse of gently undulating coastal pasture, bordered c. 40m to E of the hut site by the deep-sided ravine of the Ballymeeny River. Rectangular area (5.3m NE–SW; 3.3m NW–SE) defined on the perimeter by a barely discernible rise or bank of earth and stone, with the NE side particularly difficult to trace. The interior is not noticeably raised relative to exterior ground level. A gap of 0.4-0.5m intervenes on the SE, SW, and NW sides between the bank/wall of the hut site and an outer bank/wall, which encloses the hut on these sides and appears to be part of a wider system of field boundaries (SL011-142----), remnants of which can still be traced extending to SE and ESE from the hut site. All of these remains have been levelled in the past and survive in a very low profile, barely discernible state. There is another hut site (SL011-122----) c. 50m to NE, a rath (SL011-081001-) c. 100m to SW, and a holy well (SL011-057----) c. 120m to NNE.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 3 July 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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