Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Dernacoo, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dernacoo
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.37913, -6.99111
- SMR number
- MO003-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. This feature is not marked as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, but is shown as a curving field bank SSE-W on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is also visible on aerial photograph (GSIAP: H 284) from the 1970s and the OSI series of aerial images (2005). This is a large area defined by an earthen bank with an outer fosse S-W (Chord c. 80m), but the perimeter elsewhere is not evident.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 25 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.