Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cartrontaylor, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartrontaylor
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.19448, -8.39511
- SMR number
- SL021-218----
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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
In pasture, located on a low elevation, with good views, especially to N where ground falls into a broad, flat valley. There is a farmyard 80m to S.
Slightly raised circular area or platform (19m N−S; 19m E-W) defined by low remnants (Wth 1.5-2m; int. 0.1m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) of a stone bank or wall. The stone bank barely rises above interior ground level, but has a fairly well defined external slope; for most of the circuit it is evident as a low grass-covered rise, from which stones protrude randomly, but on the E arc the sod cover is partly removed, exposing small, loose limestone rubble.
The interior is flat and grass-covered. A post and wire fence, on a N−S axis, cuts across the inner edge of the enclosing wall on the E side of the enclosure, and a farm track skirts the W side. A single hawthorn tree stands on the SE edge, on the line of the field fence.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.