Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knoxspark, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knoxspark
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20670, -8.50234
- SMR number
- SL020-166005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
One of four 'oval hut platforms' identified in the W half of Knoxpark inland promontory fort (SL020-166001-). The others bear the numbers: SL020-166004-; SL020-166006-; SL020-166007-. (Mount 2002, 105, fig. 3, 113).
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1995).
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.