Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Powellsborough, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Powellsborough
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04851, -8.69782
- SMR number
- SL038-045----
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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 poorly drained pasture, at the base of a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a fosse is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 227-6). It is not visible at ground level. The area of the enclosure is conspicuous by having a sparse concentration of rushes in contrast to the surrounding dense concentration.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.