Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Salt works
Streamstown (leyny By., Ballysadare West Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Streamstown (leyny By., Ballysadare West Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Salt Pans
- Latest-edition OS map
- Salt Pans (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.21685, -8.55995
- SMR number
- SL020-255----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Listed in both the SMR (1989) and the RMP (1995) and classified 'Salt Workings'. In pasture, on the S shore of Ballysadare Bay. The salt workings comprise a series of overgrown ruined buildings. One of the buildings (on an E-W axis) is a residential, two-storey, gable-ended house (7.3m E-W; 5m N-S) with an enclosed yard (7m E-W) on the E side. There is a chimney on the W gable. There is a small square, single story structure (5.35m x 5.3m) at the E end of the yard with a wide cut-stone arch. There is another building (7.4m N-S; 4.8m E-W) at right-angles to the latter with a door ope at the N end facing onto the seashore. There is the remains of a two-storey building to E with the foundations of other buildings evident. The remains are of 18th/19th century appearance.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.