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Salt works

Streamstown (Leyny By., Ballysadare West ED), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Salt works, Streamstown, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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