Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Killykeskeame, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killykeskeame
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 54.19790, -7.11540
- SMR number
- MO012-088----
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 rise towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. It is depicted only o the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Carn’. This is an oval slightly raised grass and scrub-covered stony area (dims 16m E-W; 12m N-S: max. H 1m) with a large boulder (dims 1m x 0.7m) at the E edge.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 03 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.