Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Walled garden
Collooney, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Collooney
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18476, -8.48987
- SMR number
- SL026-170----
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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
Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Barrack - Infantry, Possible'. The source of the reference to a 'barrack' at Collooney is unknown (see Timoney 2002). This is a rectangular field surrounded by high walls and, according to local information, was an orchard for the nearby convent. An archaeological assessment by Martin Timoney (1999) and test trenching (Conway 2000, 274; Timoney 2012) revealed nothing of archaeological significance. This walled garden is probably post-AD 1700 in date.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 7 June 2012
References
Timoney, M. 2002 Cooloney, Co. Sligo. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, Appendix 1, 369. Bray. Wordwell.
Conway, M. 2000d Collooney. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 274. Bray. Wordwell.
Timoney, M.A. 1999 A non invasive archaeological and historical assessment of Coote's Castle of 1655 and the castle gardens in the townland of Collooney in the town of Collooney, Co. Sligo. Unpublished archaeological assessment report.
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.