Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Moytirra West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moytirra West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08553, -8.29623
- SMR number
- SL034-248----
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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
Not included in SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'House Site'. In undulating elevated pasture, 10m N of the N limit of the cairn associated with a wedge tomb (SL034-208001-). The remains of a two-roomed rectangular structure (L 7.9m; Wth 3m; long axis N-S) with walls (H 0.7m; T 0.7m) of unmortared limestone rubble. There is no break in the dividing wall and each room is entered from the exterior. The S room (3.3m N-S; 3m E-W) has an entrance (Wth 0.9m) at the NE corner. The N room (4.5m N-S; 3m E-W) has an entrance (Wth 1m) at the SE corner. This is probably post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.