Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballinvally Or Roadstown, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally Or Roadstown
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05212, -8.63041
- SMR number
- SL038-060----
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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, on level ground. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) at the junction of three field boundaries. Indicated on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval field. The remains consist of a roughly oval area (70m N-S; 43m E-W) defined SE-SSW by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.6m) and SSW-N by a scarp (H 1.25m) with a slight internal lip (Wth 1m; H 0.3m). The enclosure is truncated at NE and E by a linear field boundary on a NNW-SSE axis. The interior is mostly level but is slightly raised in the S half.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.