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Stone head

Latlorcan, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone head, Latlorcan, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Latlorcan
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.24804, -6.95315
SMR number
MO009-077----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Attached to the external front wall of a derelict farmhouse which is indicated on the 1835 'OS 6-inch' map. A stone carving of a human head in raised relief. The head is long and narrow, with oval bulging eyes and a full beard and is wearing a scalloped headpiece. Believed to have come from Faulkland Castle (MO009-059----) where it was probably used as a corbel. (pers. comm. Shirley Clerkin, Monaghan Heritage Officer).

Date of upload/revision: 23 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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