Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballincar, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincar
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.29772, -8.50818
- SMR number
- SL014-007001-
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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 undulating pasture, located on elevated ground at the W end of a ridge with good views over Sligo Bay. A roughly oval or polygonal area (14m N-S; 13m E-W) defined by slight remnants of a bank, largely reduced to a scarp. There is a break in the bank/scarp at S-SW. The interior is level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.