Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Tiredigan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tiredigan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 54.19891, -7.07950
- SMR number
- MO012-040----
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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
Situated on top of a drumlin. It is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘carn’. It is a low subrectangular grass-covered cairn (dims 16m NW-SE; 7.5m NE-SW) defined by fairly steep sides (at NE: Wth 0.5m H 0.7m) on all sides except the SW where there is a wider than usual NW-SE field wall (Wth of base 1.6m), and there is a NE-SW field wall just to the N. No structural stones are visible.
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 29 January 2018
Nearby in the register
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- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.