Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynaraw South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaraw South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05321, -8.61484
- SMR number
- SL038-065002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a marshy area, covered in rushes, on the SE bank of the Bunnanaddan river. Fragmentary remains of a rectangular tower house (SL038-065001-) stand in the centre of a slightly raised roughly D-shaped area (22m SW-NE; 25m SE-NW) noticeably drier than the surrounding terrain. The arc of a fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.1m) is evident at the edge of the raised area on the S side and the arc of a second fosse (Wth 7m) is evident E-SE, 13m outside the edge of the raised area. Field boundaries abut the edge of the raised area to NE and E. A silted-up tailrace (SL038-065003-), associated with a 19th-century corn mill to NE, skirts the edge of the raised area at N.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.