Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Carnyara, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnyara
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.09241, -8.68885
- SMR number
- SL032-141003-
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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
A large oval enclosure (105m ENE-WSW; 97m NNW-SSE) (visible on an aerial photograph GSIAP, G 262-3) defined by a collapsed sod-covered stone wall (Wth 1.2-1.5m; max. H 0.6m) S-SW, by a low rise at WNW and N-NNE, and by a slight scarp NE-E. The enclosing element appears to be incorporated into the field boundary system NW-NNW. A linear NNW-SSE field boundary truncates it at W. A second field boundary (on a NNW-SSE axis) bisects the interior off-centre to SW. A possible church (SL032-141001-) and a possible graveyard (SL032-141002-) are situated in the interior off-centre to the E and a souterrain (SL032-141005-) occurs in the SW sector. Also in the interior, off-centre to the W, are the possible remains of a limekiln (SL032-141004-). A hut site (SL032-141006-) lies c. 50m to the SW. This enclosure is not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.