Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Buncrowey, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Buncrowey
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23233, -8.91816
- SMR number
- SL017-022001-
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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
Situated on the riverward crest of one of the grass-covered terraces that constitute the E-side of the Easky valley. This enclosure is subrectangular (28m NW-SE; 23m NNE-SSW) in plan, and is enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth c.3m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.5m) with the lower courses of boulders. The enclosing wall is truncated at WNW by a later field boundary, on a NNE–SSW axis. The interior slopes down from E to W. A line of boulders, with a bank (H 0.6m) or accumulation of soil on its E side, extends from the enclosing wall at N for several meters through the interior to S. It lies c. 3.5m E of the W side of the enclosure. Conjoined to the E side of the enclosure, is a second, smaller, subrectangular enclosure (SL017-022002-). The shared wall between the two enclosures is most substantial at its N and S end but is narrower in between. There is no gap evident allowing access from one enclosure to the other.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.