Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Longford Demesne, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longford Demesne
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21507, -8.67920
- SMR number
- SL019-234----
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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
Situated in a tract of wet, level pasture traversed by modern drains. Low crescent-shaped rise (15m ENE-WSW; 10m NNW-SSE; H 0.45m) composed of shattered stone in a charcoal-rich soil, with a depression at SSE indicating the probable location of a trough. There is a possible burnt mound (SL019-233) c. 100m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.