Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Monamanry, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monamanry
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Druids Altar
- Coordinates
- 52.92970, -7.14560
- SMR number
- LA025-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
This monument stands on elevated arable land. It is a sub-circular mound 9m to 10m in diameter and 75cm in maximum height. A kerb of small stones survive around much of the circumference but is absent or concealed at the SW. Three set stones, about 1m inside the kerb in the NE quadrant and at the S, may indicate an inner kerb. There is a hollow measuring some 3.50m by 2m at the centre of the mound where a slab 1.2m by 80cm, lies partly embedded in the ground (de Valera and O Nuallain 1972, 97, no. 4).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 March 2013
See attached document with a plan and section of the monument.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.