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Hut site

Crowagh Or Dunneill Mountain, County Sligo, Ireland

The record

Townland
Crowagh Or Dunneill Mountain
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.20399, -8.87804
SMR number
SL018-093----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Located in the SW corner of a roughly rectangular turf cutting, on a flat plateau of heather and sedge-covered blanket bog bordered at NE–E by the Crowagh River valley. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 5.5-6m) can be distinguished by a slightly denser, higher growth of heather. Exposed on its perimeter at SE–SW is a shallow arc of low close-set stones, possibly the remnants of a stone bank or wall. The stone bank/wall (Wth 0.4-0.7m) appears to be only two stones wide, and barely protrudes above the bog surface. Individual stones can be glimpsed or felt by probing beneath the heather elsewhere around the perimeter of the heather cropmark. The visible remains suggest that a circular stone structure, possibly a hut site, is concealed beneath the heather.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 2 July 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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