Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Derrymore Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrymore Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94627, -8.43002
- SMR number
- SL047-010002-
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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
Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'House Site'. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. In the centre of a rath (SL047-010001-). The remains of a rectangular stone-built house with collapsed walls (T 2.2m; H 0.8m). The sunken interior is divided into two rooms (the W room: 6.3m N-S; 6.3m E-W; the E room: 6.3m N-S; 5.3m E-W) by a crossing wall which has a connecting door ope at its S end. The W room has opes at the E end of the N and S walls, that in the S wall possibly being the entrance ope. This is likely to be post-1700 AD in date. It is mentioned under the record for the rath.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 10 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.