Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lugbaun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lugbaun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20785, -8.62894
- SMR number
- SL019-231----
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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 pasture, in an area of sharply undulating stony terrain, located on the E edge of a natural terrace with ground falling away to NE-E. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 23.2m N-S; 26.1m E-W) is enclosed by a ruined drystone wall of rough rounded stones. The enclosure coincides with a natural terrace so that the interior in the W half is level with external ground level but at NE-SE, the perimeter is marked by an abrupt drop of c. 2m in exterior ground level. At N-S the enclosing wall is reduced to a low, moss-covered stone bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.5m), which tops the natural scarp (ext. H 2.2m at E). At S-NW the wall appears as a broad, low jumble (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H c. 0.5-0.6m) of moss-covered stones. The NW-N edge of the enclosure is incorporated into a linear field wall, also dilapidated. The interior is level and grassy. Hawthorn and hazel scrub, and clumps of brambles ring the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.