Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone head
Latlorcan, County Monaghan, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.