Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bunowna, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunowna
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28940, -8.95057
- SMR number
- SL011-143001-
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Shown on 5 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 the NW corner of a modern walled rectangular field, located in gently undulating coastal grassland, immediately NE of Easkey village. Ground falls very gently for 300m to N ending at a rocky shoreline. The Easkey River lies to E, opening into the sea c. 560m to NE of the enclosure. This enclosure has been partly levelled. It survives as a slightly raised circular area (24.5m N-S; c. 25m E–W) defined at SW–NW by a broadly slumped bank (Wth 4-4.5m) with a relatively pronounced external scarp (ext. H 0.75m). At NNW–S the bank has been levelled and can be traced only as a low curving undulation. Close to the inner edge of the bank in the SW quadrant of the interior there is a circular hollow (5m N–S; c. 4m E–W; D 0.4m) in the centre of which is an upright stone (0.7m ENE-WSW; 0.45-0.5m NNW–SSE; H 0.95m). Abutting the enclosure at SE and S are traces of levelled field boundaries, part of a field system (SL011-143003-) that extend to SE and S. The field boundary at SE appears to connect this enclosure to another enclosure (SL011-143002-) located c. 40m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.