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Promontory fort - coastal

Donaghintraine, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - coastal, Donaghintraine, 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
Donaghintraine
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.26527, -8.85539
SMR number
SL012-011----

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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

Long, narrow, triangular promontory (dims. 55m N-S; 16m E-W) extending N into Sligo Bay. Its W, N and E sides are defined by low cliffs upon a rocky shelf while it is cut off from the surrounding land by a largely levelled, low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 1m; H 0.6m) at S. A short distance S of this is a second bank which has been levelled but whose outline is still identifiable (Wth. c.1.5m). The promontory is marked 'Donaghintraine' on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map. O'Rorke (1890, 403) recorded that this is an anglisization of 'Dun Contreathain' or 'Dun Cintreathain' and that there was a great battle at a fortress here in 1249 between Felim O'Conor and the Berminghams at which O'Conor emerged victorious. (O'Rorke 1878, 256-7; M. Casey 1988, pers. comm.)

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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