Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on top of a limestone ridge and within a field system (SL040-121001-). An oval area (14.3m NW-SE; 12.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a ruinous stone wall, evident as a partially sod-covered jumble of stones (Wth 2m; H 0.4m) with traces of internal and external stone facing. The interior slopes down slightly to NW and has an uneven surface. Traces of a slight stony scarp may be the remains of an internal division in the SE quadrant. A rectangular cairn (2.6m NE-SW; 2.2m NW-SE; H 0.7m) of large stones abuts the inner wall face at SE. Abutting the wall face at SW is a slightly sunken subrectangular area (3.5m NE-SW; 2.5m NW-SE; D 0.5m) defined on the NE and SE sides by inward-facing scarps and on the NE side by a slight stony rise. Remnants of a field boundary extend to SSW from the enclosure wall at S.

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