Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Bellafarney, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellafarney
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22474, -8.92579
- SMR number
- SL017-098003-
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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 pasture, on the level top of a broad, low hill which forms a virtual island of elevated ground surrounded at W–S by lowlying wet, boggy ground. Sod-covered, flat-topped D-shaped platform (19m NW–SE; 6.5m NE–SW) defined on the curving side at SW–NW by a low stony scarp (H 0.5m) and on the straight side at NE by a drystone field wall (Wth 0.8m; H 1.4m). The function and date of this possible enclosure is uncertain. It is unclear if it abuts the field wall or underlies it. It may be related to a structure (SL017-098001-) and enclosure (SL017-098002-) located on the opposite, NE face of the field wall but the exact relationship is unclear.
Attached images:
SL017-098003-_01.JPG -viewed from NW
SL017-098003-_02.JPG -viewed from NW
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 March 2015
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.