Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Kilcreen, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcreen
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.25997, -7.12673
- SMR number
- MO008-029----
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 towards the top of the W-facing slope and towards the N end of a N-S drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small circular enclosure only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a small circular area (diam. c. 15m) defined by a slight earthen bank that has some mature beech trees planted within it. According to a local tradition, a grave with bones was found in the interior.
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: 30 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.