Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Knocknarea North, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknarea North
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.26317, -8.57959
- SMR number
- SL014-076046-
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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
One of four buildings (SL014-076044-; SL014-076045-; SL014-076046-; SL014-076052-) located on a narrow ledge on the N side of Knocknarea Mountain, it consists of the remains of a building that appears to comprise two rooms which differs in construction and size. The E room (5m x 2m) is long and narrow (2x5m) and has a possible entrance in the E wall. Immediately W is a slightly larger room (4m x 3m) set at right-angles to it. From their location on the isolated and limited ledge it is suggested that these buildings may have been used in one and the same context. What that context was, and especially its date, remains unknown (pers. comm. Stefan Bergh, 14 August 2014).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh based on details kindly provided by Dr. Stefan Bergh (NUI Galway).
Date of upload: 12 November 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.