Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Farranyharpy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranyharpy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23184, -8.74658
- SMR number
- SL018-051010-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a ridge top, in an area of sharply undulating terrain, broken by rock outcropping and traversed by remnants of field boundaries (SL018-051009-). There is a megalithic structure (SL018-051001-) 6m to N. This consists of a roughly C-shaped structure (8m NE–SW; c. 6m NW–SE) defined at NE–SW by a broadly slumped, sod-covered stone and earth bank (Wth 1.8-2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m at E). Cutting across the open side at NW is a sod-covered NE–SW field bank. A gap (Wth 1m) in the field bank allows access into the enclosed C-shaped area. It was recorded as a possible fulacht fia in 1986 in a sketch plan (SMR file: pers. comm. W. Forbes, mound ‘A’). It is not a fulacht fia. It may have been a small animal pen or enclosure, or a hut site.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 January 2014
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.