Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Shancough (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shancough (tirerrill By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09824, -8.26803
- SMR number
- SL035-051----
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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, straddling the summit of a ridge. An oval raised area (64m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 2.75m), apart from a short section at SE where the scarp has been removed due to a small quarry pit (diam. 6m). The base of the scarp is surrounded by a gently sloping platform (Wth 10-14m) which is in turn defined by a stone-lined scarp (H 1.3m) SE-NE. Drystone field boundary walls have been constructed against the face of the outer scarp at SSE and another lies along the line of the now absent scarp NE-SE. Drystone walls abut the outer scarp at W, NNW, N, NE and SE. Known locally as a 'fort'.
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).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.