Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cloonlaheen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlaheen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99479, -8.54237
- SMR number
- SL044-029002-
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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 pasture, on the NW end of a drumlin ridge. Described in 1994 (SMR (1989) file) as an oval area (int. diam. 77m N-S; 160m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) with a wide external fosse (Wth 6.8m; D 0.5m). A rectangular enclosure (SL044-029001-) was in the N half of the sloping interior. A stream was described as skirting the S perimeter c. 9m from the edge of the fosse. During a subsequent inspection, no remains of the fosse or any other enclosing elements could be identified although the rectangular enclosure (SL044-029001-) is still extant. An aerial photograph taken in September 2003 does not show any of the features mentioned in the 1994 field report.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.