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Cartrontaylor, County Sligo, Ireland

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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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

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