Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.27737, -8.38164
- SMR number
- SL015-112----
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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
Situated on a slight SSW-facing slope, in elevated rocky pasture similar to another mound (SL015-051---) located 30m to the SSE. Circular flat-topped mound (dims. L top N-S 1.75m; Wth top E-W 1.45m; L base N-S 4.55m; Wth base E-W 6.25m) of earth and rubble limestone. There is no fosse visible at ground level. The external height of the mound increases from N to S due to the underlying natural slope.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.