Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Knockbeg West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbeg West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.17789, -8.51596
- SMR number
- SL026-021004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the SW quadrant of Knockbeg West moated site (SL026-021002-). This is a circular flat-topped mound (diam. 19m; H 1.8m at N, 1.5m at S) with broadly sloping sides, except N-NE where the slope is steeper. The level top (diam. c.10m) has a slight depression at NNW. A single hawthorn bush grows on top of the mound.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.