Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Larkhill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Larkhill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21363, -8.61480
- SMR number
- SL019-143----
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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 undulating pasture, on a small terrace on a NE-facing slope. An oval enclosure, incorporated along its W arc into a NNE-SSW field boundary, is visible in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V 203/151-0). The enclosure and the field boundaries are now levelled. The enclosure is now evident as a slightly raised level area (diam. c. 25m) roughly defined NW-SE by a broadly sloping scarp (H 1.8m) which merges with the natural slope. A faint scarp crosses the interior NE-SW. The ground rises immediately to the S.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.