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Cliff-edge fort

Barroe Lower, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cliff-edge fort, Barroe Lower, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Barroe Lower
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.07806, -8.31372
SMR number
SL034-221----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a shelf on a SW-facing slope overlooking Lough Arrow. A roughly D-shaped area (dims. 16m NE-SW; 17m NW-SE) defined on the straight SW side by a drystone field boundary wall, set back slightly from a steep natural slope, and by a moss-covered limestone rubble wall (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.5m) W-SSE. The latter curves N-E but straightens out as it approaches the drystone wall at W and S. The interior is level but lower than external ground level in the NE half and flush with it in the SW half.

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).

Attached images:
SL034-221----_01.JPG Viewed from E
SL034-221----_03.JPG Viewed from E
SL034-221----_03.JPG Viewed from NW

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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