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Building

Cloonmacduff, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Cloonmacduff, 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
Cloonmacduff
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.18999, -8.47949
SMR number
SL020-263----

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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

Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Building Possible'. In pasture, on a rise on the S bank of the Arrow or Unshin River and on the N side of a disused avenue on the Markree estate. The ruins of a square 2-storey tower (H c. 3.5m; 6.45m N-S; 6.9m E-W) which is built of random rubble limestone bonded with lime mortar. The tower is built on a plinth (projects internally 0.35m) which is in turn built on an earlier plinth (projects externally 0.16m) which is only evident on the E side. There are the remains of window opes on the ground and first floors of the W wall and a door ope in the S wall with a window overhead. A ha-ha curves around the N side. An ornate road bridge is visible to W. The site of a castle (SL020-207-—) lies 220m to W, immediately S of ornate bridge. This tower is probably post-1700 AD in date.

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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