Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Derryhoosh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryhoosh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.33029, -6.90596
- SMR number
- MO007-013----
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 on a gentle N-facing slope. A circular cropmark is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: H 269/268) from the 1970s, and a slightly raised feature can be seen on the NW side of a relict NE-SW field bank on Google Earth (16/11/2008). No archaeological feature is visible at ground level.
Date of revised upload: 30 August 2017
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.