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Embanked enclosure

Knockatober, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Embanked enclosure, Knockatober, 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
Knockatober
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.19085, -8.41907
SMR number
SL021-051----

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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

In pasture, located in the level base of a broad natural depression ringed by rising ground. The Ballygawley Mountains form a dramatic backdrop on the horizon at N-NE. A circular area (45m E-W) enclosed by a broad earth and stone bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.7m) with the remains of stone kerbing along the internal bank face along the E arc. The entrance (Wth 9m) is at E. A field boundary curves around the bank along the NE arc.
There is a mound barrow (SL021-102---) 300m to NE and a portal tomb (SL021-058----) 380m to NNE.

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).

Attached images:
SL021-051----_01.JPG Viewed from SE
SL021-051----_02.JPG Viewed from E
SL021-051----_03.JPG Enclosing bank at E

Date of revised upload: 29 November 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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