Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Moygara, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moygara
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97033, -8.47425
- SMR number
- SL044-093----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In damp, rush-grown pasture, located on the S bank of a stream/field drain that flows E through a small valley. A field bank borders the N edge of the stream/field drain.
Low, roughly D-shaped mound (8.5m N−S; c. 13m E−W), visible as a green, grassy rise in a dense sea of rushes. It is cut on its straight side at N by the roughly E-W field drain (Wth 1.2m at top, 0.6m at base; D 1.3m below top of mound). The mound is low profile; it is highest along its N edge where it borders the stream/drain, grading down gently from there to S where it barely rises above surrounding ground level.
Another field ditch (Wth c. 1m), on a NE−SW axis, cuts through the E half of the mound, expanding to c. 2m in width at NE, close to the point at which it intersects with the E−W stream/drain. It is possible that this expanded area incorporates part of an original trough hollow. This portion of the burnt mound is denuded of sod and eroded, revealing a concentration of angular stone fragments in black, charcoal-rich soil.
Attached images:
SL044-093----_01.JPG Viewed from W
SL044-093----_02.JPG Eroded portion of mound at NE, viewed from E
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Exhibitionist figureunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.