Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Belladrihid, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belladrihid
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.21658, -8.49815
- SMR number
- SL020-113----
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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, on top of a prominent ridge with excellent views in all directions. A raised roughly oval area (c. 16.5m WNW-ESE; 9.5m NNE-SSW) defined NW-ENE by a low curving bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.75m). From SE-WSW, the bank has been straightened and incorporated into a now disused field boundary wall. There are no visible remains of the enclosure to S of this field wall. A small portion of the enclosure has been destroyed at W due to the construction of a large concrete water tank and a farm building. A break (Wth 1.9m) in the bank at E may mark the original entrance. According to local information, 'passages' which emanated from this enclosure were filled with stones in the 1950s and 1960s.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.