Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knockroe (tirerrill By., Aghanagh Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (tirerrill By., Aghanagh Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04769, -8.35307
- SMR number
- SL040-206----
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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 rocky pasture, on top of a ridge. The remains of an oval stone-built structure (int. dims. 10.6m x 8.9m). The wall is best preserved at N (T 2.3m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.3m) and elsewhere only the foundations are evident.
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).
Attached image: SL040-206----_01.JPG viewed from SW.
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.