Ecclesiastical enclosure in Carrowntemple, County Sligo

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An arc of a field boundary (C c. 80m) S-N indicated on the 1942-3 OS 6-inch map is probably the remains of the ecclesiastical enclosure surrounding Carrowntemple church and graveyard (SL044-056001-; SL044-056002-). This earth and stone bank (Wth 3-6.6m) survives to a maximum height of 2.5m (Wallace and Timoney 1987, 45). The modern graveyard extending E and S from the old graveyard, which surrounds the church, has removed any trace of the E and SE arcs of the enclosure and a section at NW arc was removed in 1982 (ibid.). According to M. A. Timoney (2002a, 141), this inner enclosure is surrounded by a roughly concentric outer enclosure. The outer enclosure (diam. c. 350m) is preserved in the field boundaries to the S, SW and N of the graveyard (Wallace and Timoney 1987, 45). Two adjacent chambers of a Man-made underground passage (SL044-056003-), c. 20m to NW of the graveyard, are within the enclosure. A second Man-made underground passage (SL044-056007-) lies c. 150m to W of the graveyard and immediately outside the area of the ecclesiastical enclosure.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL044-056006

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