Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilmacowen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacowen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22527, -8.51500
- SMR number
- SL020-102----
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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
In pasture, on level ground with a rising slope to S, in an area of gently undulating terrain. This enclosure is indicated on the 1837 and 1913 OS 6-inch maps as a broadly oval enclosure, incorporated into a system of field boundaries which extend beyond the enclosure to NNE, S and SW. The enclosure (28m NE–SW; c. 23m NW–SE) has been partly levelled. The outline of the E half is preserved in a field wall/property boundary, which curves NNE–S in a shallow arc. The enclosing element on the W half was removed during land reclamation but a slight surface undulation curving SSW–N is still discernible. The interior of the enclosure is not noticeably raised above exterior ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.