Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Aughris (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughris (tireragh By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.26961, -8.78311
- SMR number
- SL012-002004-
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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, located at the W end of Aughris Head, on a broad expanse of relatively level grassland which was used in the 19th century as a racecourse called Ruball Sionnaigh. The enclosure was recorded by FitzPatrick (2001, 91) as follows: 'On the flat ground between the large boulder on the cliff-line and the possible passage tomb [SL012-017001-] on the ridge, a sizable square enclosure (site 3), defined on all sides by a stout bank, but with no obvious traces of a fosse, shows up clearly on aerial photographs (Pl. II).' The remains are not visible at ground level and the point location for this record is based on that recorded on the schematic map (Ibid., Fig. 1, 68).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 April 2014
References
FitzPatrick, E. 2001 The gathering place of Tir Fiachrach?: archaeological and folkloric investigations at Aughris, Co. Sligo. PRIA 101C, no. 3, 67-105.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.