Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Belville, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belville
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22733, -8.86237
- SMR number
- SL018-055----
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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 rough pasture, situated at the edge of a high bluff at the S side of an E-facing slope overlooking a bend in the River Dunneill. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Substantially raised, subcircular platform (14.7m N-S; 12m E-W, at top) with steeply sloping, almost vertical, sides (H 1.3m at W, 3m at E). At S the platform merges with the cliff face of the bluff. The flat top of the platform is defined on its perimeter at W by remnants of a bank (Wth c. 0.8m). On the S edge of the platform are the remnants of modern stone wall, on a roughly E–W axis, which forms a barrier along the cliff edge. A farm track skirts the enclosure at N.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.