Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cloonamahan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonamahan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.15749, -8.47739
- SMR number
- SL026-076----
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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, on a slight rise. Indicated only on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as an arc of bank (C c. 20m) S-NW, possibly the remains of a circular enclosure. It is not visible at ground level. A road has been built in the vicinity of the enclosure. A rath (SL026-077----) lies c. 80m to E.
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).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.