Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Belderg, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belderg
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.30189, -6.95607
- SMR number
- MO006-015----
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
A large rectangular cropmark with two parallel lines emanating at right-angles from one side is visible on an aerial photograph taken 1973-7 (GSIAP: H 269/270). This was listed in the non-statutory Sites and Monuments Record (issued 1985) and the statutory Record of Monuments and Places (issued 1996) as ‘Potential site – aerial photo’. There is no visible surface trace of these features. On inspection in 1983 the following was recorded: 'It is said locally to be the site of a battle (hence the name of the townland) the victims of which were buried in a triangular field at the most northerly tip of the adjoining townland of Skinnagin.' Pending further evidence, this is not sufficient to warrant accepting it as a battlefield site.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 11 August 2017
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.