Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, at the break of a NNE-facing slope overlooking a broad expanse of poorly drained pasture. Subrectangular area (int. dims. 17.2m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed on the N, E and S sides by a drystone wall (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.7m) with rounded corners, and bordered on the W side by a NNE-SSW field boundary wall (Wth 1.4m; H 1m). Where it intersects with the enclosure, the field boundary wall is slightly more substantial than elsewhere along its length. The interior is a level terrace cut into the natural slope. Moss and blackthorn bushes obscure much of the wall fabric. The internal wall face is largely reduced to a loose jumble of stones on the N and E sides, and is very dilapidated at S. The external wall face at N and W is also dilapidated and at S is merely a low jumble of moss-covered stones. There is a break (Wth 1m) at the W end of the S wall and another (Wth 0.8m), now blocked by a stone wall, at the W end of the N wall. A small ruined rectangular structure (2.2m N-S; c. 1.8m E-W), with drystone walls, is built into the collapsed inner face of the E wall and clearly post-dates it. A similar roofless rectangular structure (3.6m E-W; 2.3m), with drystone walls (Wth 0.6m; H 1.4m), abuts the external face of the N wall.

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