Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Carrownrush (tireragh By., Easky East Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownrush (tireragh By., Easky East Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.26946, -8.87556
- SMR number
- SL012-006----
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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
Not marked as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Small, approximately triangular-shaped promontory (30m NW-SE; 27.5m NE-SW) extending in a NW direction into Sligo Bay. The SW, NW and NE sides are defined by sea rocks. The promontory is cut off from the surrounding land at SE by a low bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.3-0.6m) of earth and stone which appears to be a relatively modern, although now-disused, field boundary. The promontory is marked 'Lackavarna' on the OS 1913 ed. of the 6-inch map. Within the same townland, 60m to SE there is a second possible promontory fort (SL012-007----). (Casey M. 1988, pers. comm.)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.