Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Lugnadeffa, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lugnadeffa
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20393, -8.58961
- SMR number
- SL020-131----
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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 a high steep-sided hillock on a NE-facing slope at the foot of the Ox Mountains. An oval mound of earth and stone (c. 27m NW-SE; 19.5m NE-SW) defined by a steep scarp (H c. 1.4m at NNE; H c. 3.5m at SW). At SSE the scarp merges with the natural slope of the hillside, possibly marking the access point from the exterior. The hillock and mound have been planted with coniferous trees. A number of small holes have been dug into the side of the hillock and into the sides and the top of the mound.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.