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Hilltop enclosure

Lenagh, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hilltop enclosure, Lenagh, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lenagh
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.35454, -6.96878
SMR number
MO003-038----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Occupying the summit of a small drumlin. This monument is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure defined by field banks but which is described in gothic lettering as a 'fort'. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 95m NE-SW; 64m E-W) defined by a scarp varying in dimension from NE (Wth 2.6m; H 1.1m) to W (Wth 2m; H 1.45m), with a field bank and hedge outside the scarp SW-W-NE, and E-ESE but the scarp supports the hedge elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but there is a broad entrance (Wth c. 8m) at ESE.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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