What is recorded here
Indicated is a grass-covered oval enclosure at the SW angle of Lough Nacarriga, County Leitrim, defined by an earth and stone bank and hedge with a single entrance at SSE. Coolnakill church sits towards its west end, yet no burial evidence has emerged despite the church name. The place may have marked boundary, worship or memory rather than death, but the lake and lowland have kept that purpose ambiguous.
Situated in gently undulating lowland c. 150m W of a bay (max. dims c. 150m N-S; c. 130m E-W at N) at the SW angle of Lough Nacarriga. Coolnakill church (LE024-023001-) is towards the W end of a grass-covered oval enclosure (dims 75m E-W; 52m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (at S: Wth 3.5m; H 1.1m) and hedge with an entrance (Wth 3.5m) at SSE, but there is no evidence of burial.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 January, 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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