Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Cottlestown, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cottlestown
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castletown Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 54.18330, -9.08061
- SMR number
- SL022-010002-
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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 the SE quadrant of a larger D-shaped enclosure (SL022-010001-), bordered on the SE side by a stream. A slightly raised subrectangular area (26m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) enclosed by the largely grassed-over remains of a low wall (int. H 0.1-0.3m) of stone and earth, which incorporates the enclosing bank of the larger enclosure on the NE and SE sides. The interior of the burial ground is divided in two by a low scarp on a NE–SW axis which marks a drop of 0.7m in ground level between the larger NW part and a lower, smaller SE terrace which slopes down to the stream. In the NW corner of the raised NW part of the burial ground, there is a cross-inscribed pillar (SL022-010003-). A random scatter of low stones protruding from the sod may represent grave markers.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.