Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coollemoneen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coollemoneen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11808, -8.30259
- SMR number
- SL034-263----
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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, located the level top of a high ridge, close to the break of slope at NE where ground falls in a long, steep NE-facing slope into a small stream valley. There are excellent views N−SE bounded by a distant high ridge.
This possible enclosure is not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, but is shown on the 25-inch plan and 1914 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachuring which curves W−NE (cord L c. 25m). A low scarp can be traced W−NE in a broad arc (cord L 29-30m NE−SW). The scarp appears to have been partly levelled in the past; it is very slight at W−NW (H 0.3m; Wth slope 2-3m), but is better preserved at N−NNE (H 0.9m; Wth slope c. 6m) where it coincides with and is enhanced by the natural break of slope of the ridge. A slight surface undulation on a N-S axis, possibly the remains of a field boundary, cuts across the NE terminal of the arc.
The significance of this curving scarp is uncertain; it may be the surviving NW arc of an originally circular enclosure. There is a rath (MA034-069001-) 275m to W.
Attached image:
SL034-263----_01.JPG Enclosure viewed from W
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.