Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Annaghloy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghloy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.04455, -8.30618
- SMR number
- SL040-119----
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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
On top of a ridge and near the tip of a peninsula jutting into Lough Arrow. A low roughly oval mound (c. 9m E-W; c. 6m N-S) composed of sandstone and limestone boulders, and overgrown with holly, is the only remaining evidence of a building depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a rectangular structure (long axis E-W) and named 'Abbey'. The exact nature of this structure is unclear and nothing seems to be known of its history (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 363).
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.