Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Barroe Lower, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barroe Lower
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07806, -8.31372
- SMR number
- SL034-221----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.