Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Church Hill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Hill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07440, -8.61595
- SMR number
- SL032-195003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
An oval area (55m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by a scarp (H c. 1.35m) SW-NNE and by a short stretch of an earthen bank (H c. 0.6m; Wth c. 2m) NNE-NE; otherwise the edge of the enclosure is overlain by a field boundary. To the N of the centre is the ruin of a late medieval church (SL032-195001-), c. 8m SW of which is a bullaun stone (SL032-195004-). According to local information, the enclosure was used as a graveyard (SL032-195002-) though there are no visible remains of any grave-markers. There is a souterrain (SL032-194----) c. 40m to SW in the adjoining field.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.