Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Drumcaw (trough By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcaw (trough By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.29406, -6.96250
- SMR number
- MO006-024----
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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
Situated towards the top of the E-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge, overlooking Drumcaw Lough, which is c. 300m to the E. It is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but is visible as a cropmark enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse feature SW-N-SE which is incorporated into a field bank elsewhere on aerial photographs (GSIAP: H 269/270) from the 1970s. It is depicted as a small enclosure with a house on the 1834 edition, and as a kink in the field bank on the 1907 edition of the map.
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: 29 August 2017
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.