Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Derroon, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derroon
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10430, -8.52760
- SMR number
- SL033-046002-
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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 small rectangular earthwork is located just outside the outer bank of Derroon rath (SL033-046001-) at NNE. This earthwork consists of a raised rectangular area (4m N-S; 4.7m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.45m). The interior is slightly concave in profile and clear of overgrowth. On the SE side of this earthwork, outside the base of the bank at the SE corner, a shallow drain (D 0.3m) with an earthen bank (H 0.45m) on its N side (both orientated E-W) has been dug extending E to a field boundary. Roughly 1.5m to the W of the rectangular earthwork is a series of low earth and stone mounds (diam. 1.5-2.5m; H 0.8-1m). A low earthen bank (ext. H 0.25m) which runs parallel to the W edge of the rectangular earthwork defines the limit of these mounds on the E side.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.