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Earthwork

Carrownaboll, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Carrownaboll, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrownaboll
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.23848, -8.68014
SMR number
SL019-022----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Within a relatively large, modern field. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Identified from aerial photography. In the SW is a small D-shaped area (dims. 13m E-W; 10.6m N-S) bordered on the straight W side by a linear field wall and from N-E-S by a curving, sod-covered stony bank (Wth. 3m - 3.5m; int H 0.8m; ext H 0.2m - 0.6m. This feature has the designation 'Pound' on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. From here a narrow spine of raised ground, whose S side is defined by a scarp, extends for c.16m in an ENE direction. It then expands into another low E-W rise, extending S from which are the levelled remnants of a field wall. Irregular sod-filled quarry holes indicate that this rise has been disturbed or quarried. At the E end of the rise is a roughly circular (diam c.5m), sod-covered heap of field stones. To the W of this scarp is an area of wet ground bordered by a slight scarp. To the N a drain extends NW and then W across the field.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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