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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.09524, -8.27058
- SMR number
- SL035-052003-
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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
This is a large rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 62.7m x 38.9m) surrounding Shancough Church (SL035-052001-). Its enclosing element is a sod-covered stone wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.65m) with an inner and outer facing of limestone slabs. There is an entrance (Wth 2.4m) on the N side. A furnace bottom was noted in the W wall.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.