Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cummeen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.27483, -8.52703
- SMR number
- SL014-047002-
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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
Within an embanked enclosure (SL014-047001-). A circular area (diam. 32m) is defined by a low bank (Wth 4.8m, at top 3m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.24m). There are no breaks in the bank and there is no fosse. In the centre of the flat interior is a cairn (SL014-047003-). The enclosure is engulfed in overgrowth.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Embanked enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.