Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.27754, -8.37220
- SMR number
- SL015-059004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the interior of a cashel (SL015-059001-). A circular hachured feature is shown in the N half of the cashel interior on the 1937 OS 6-inch map, and this most likely equates with a hut site recorded in the late 1800's by Milligan (1890-1, 579). He described it as ‘a small circular structure, 13 feet [c. 4m] internal diameter, and the wall 3 feet [c. 1m] broad’. No visible trace of the hut site was found during an inspection in 2003.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of revised upload: 15 August 2016
References
Milligan, S.F. 1890-91 Ancient forts in County Sligo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 21, 574-82.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.