Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Buncrowey, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Buncrowey
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23225, -8.91798
- SMR number
- SL017-022003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In an enclosure (SL017-022002-). This consists of a semi-circular (diam. c. 4.5-5m) setting of large split stones, possibly the basal course of a hut site. It is built on a raised area or platform enclosed within a subtriangular space (9.4m NW-SE; 6.5m NE-SW) in the SW quadrant of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.