Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ford
Ballysadare Bay, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysadare Bay
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22328, -8.56336
- SMR number
- SL020-244----
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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
According to O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 1, 44), the 'scene of conflict' during the Battle of Sligo in the 6th century extended from the Sligo estuary to the estuary at Ballysadare. In tracing the route taken by the Northern invaders in Sligo Bay, O'Rorke (ibid., 45) mentions a stage known as 'Fintragh Pass', from Carrowcrin to Streamstown over a 'fearsat or ford in the channel' across Ballisadare Bay. This ford is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map. There are no visible remains of it.
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
- Salt worksunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.