Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rockbrook, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockbrook
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.14325, -8.36609
- SMR number
- SL027-179----
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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 lowlying pasture , located on level, gently elevated ground bordered to W by the SW flowing Douglas River, and to E−SE by an expanse of lowlying damp, rush-grown ground. There is a low cliff of limestone outcrop to N; Rockbrook House and associated farmyard are located c. 50m to NE.
This levelled enclosure, possibly a levelled rath, is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It is visible in current aerial views. The remains are very low profile. It is evident as a very low, circular platform (30m N−S; 31.5m E−W) defined by a broadly slumped scarp (Wth slope 3-4m; H 0.4m), outside which is a fosse, visible as very shallow depression (Wth 3-4m) on the S arc and barely discernible elsewhere around the circuit. There is a rath (SL027-110001-) 155m to WNW.
Attached image: SL027-179----_01.JPG viewed from SW
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 5 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.