Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Barroe Lower, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barroe Lower
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07948, -8.31215
- SMR number
- SL034-265----
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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 in limestone terrain, on a terrace on a high ridge overlooking the E shore of Lough Arrow. To NE ground shelves up gradually; to SW it falls steeply for c. 400m in a series of rocky terraces, eventually levelling out at the lake shore.
This enclosure is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It is visible in aerial imagery (Digital globe, Google Earth).
Circular area (diam. 21m N−S; 21 E−W) defined by a low remnants of a bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m at E). The enclosure backs onto a slight rise at W bordered by a N−S seam of limestone bedrock. This gives the interior a gentle dip or slightly concave profile. The enclosing bank is evident at NNW−SE as a low grass-covered rise, best preserved at E−SE; it is barely discernible on the W half where it converges with rising ground. The interior mirrors the natural slope, with a gentle fall from the perimeter at W toward the centre where it levels out but is only marginally higher than exterior ground level.
Notified to NMS by Andrew Goodison.
Attached images:
SL034-265----_01.JPG Enclosure viewed from E
SL034-265----_02.JPG Enclosing bank on S arc
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.