Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrownadargny, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownadargny
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11956, -8.26195
- SMR number
- SL035-126----
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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 on a terrace on a high, limestone ridge, overlooked to the N by a higher ridge. Approximately 20m to N of the enclosure, there is a precipitous drop into a deep, narrow pass which intervenes between the two ridges. Immediately to E of the enclosure the ground rises to a higher terrace; to S and W ground falls away to lower terraces.
Roughly oval area (26m N−S; 22m E−W) enclosed by a low, moss-covered stone bank (Wth 1.6m; H 0.3-0.4m). The stone bank is poorly preserved and gapped on the W arc; the largest breaks are at S (Wth 6m) and N (Wth 4m). On the E arc the perimeter of the enclosure is cut into rising ground to form an inward-facing sod-covered scarp (H 0.7m), which has a low external lip (Wth 0.8m; ext. H 0.2m) at NE. The interior is not raised. It is bisected to E of centre by a field wall/property fence on a NNW-SSE axis.
There is a rath (SL035-010----) 150m to W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.