Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Blackraw, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackraw
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.19149, -7.02755
- SMR number
- MO013-024001-
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 just SE of the summit of a small NW-SE drumlin ridge and extending from the centre to the bank of rath (MO013-024----) at NNW is a depression (dims 12.7m NNE-SSW; 3.1m E-W; max. D 1m) which could be a collapsed souterrain, although no stone is visible.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 February, 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.