Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockroe (Tirerrill By., Aghanagh ED), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (Tirerrill By., Aghanagh ED)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04894, -8.34779
- SMR number
- SL040-250----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough upland pasture, located on a ridge-top terrace or narrow plateau on the E flank of the Bricklieve Mountains. The location gives excellent views over Lough Arrow. On its E side the enclosure utilises a slight natural kink or expansion at the break of slope of the terrace; from here the ground drops c. 2m to a lower terrace, and then drops more steeply in a series of further terraces before levelling out at the shores of Lough Arrow. To W of the enclosure, the plateau drops gently into a shallow valley of rush-grown, boggy ground, beyond which there are views of undulating upland terrain and higher ridges of the Bricklieves.
The enclosure consists of a circular area (diam. 16m E−W; 16m N−S) defined by a low, moss- and heather-covered stone bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.3-0.4m). The bank is poorly preserved, slumped and gapped. A short stretch at NE, denuded of its thin covering of peaty soil, reveals that it consists of a concentration of small limestone stones. A break (Wth 2m) at SE may be an original entrance. The interior is grassy, flat and featureless, with a single hawthorn tree growing in the NW quadrant. A few hawthorn bushes grow on the stone bank/perimeter at SE−S.
Attached images:
SL040-250----_01: Enclosure viewed from NW
SL040-250----_02: Enclosure viewed from SSE
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.