Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- 54.29413, -6.96755
- SMR number
- MO006-037----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 in a relatively low-lying position in an undulating landscape with drumlins. Archaeological testing (12E0068) in advance of an improvement of the N2 Monaghan to Emyvale road identified a burnt mound which was designated Drumcaw 1 (O’Hara 2012a, 6) and fully resolved (12E0220) subsequently (O’Hara 2012b). It appeared as a single spread of burnt stone in a charcoal enriched clay matrix (diam. 6.3m E-W; 6m N-S; max. T 0.22m) which overlay the subsoil where there were three pronounced hollows (dims 3m x 1.4m; D 0.15m: 2.3m X 0.9m; D 0.15M; 2.6M X 1.1M; d 0.18m), A sample of alder charcoal from the most easterly pit which was cut by a N-S drain produced a C14 date of 3888 +- 30 BP (2470-2288 cal. BC). (O’Hara 2012b, 4, 24-4)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2020
O’Hara, R. 2012a N2 Monaghan to Emyvale Road Improvement Scheme. Stage 1, Stage 2. Licence No. 12E0068. Unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning
O’Hara, R. 2012b N2 Monaghan to Emyvale Road Improvement Scheme. Drumcaw 1 Stage III, Stage IV. Licence No. 12E0220. Unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.