Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Cloghan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16082, -6.80092
- SMR number
- MO019-009001-
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
Situated towards the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. Running SSW from the centre of rath (MO019-009----) is a grass-covered depression (dims 11.6m NNE-SSW; 5.7m WNW-ESE; max. D 1.35m) with a spur (dims WNW-ESE 4.3m; 4.4m NNE-SSW; max. D 0.8m) off its W side. This could be a destroyed souterrain, although there is no evidence of stone.
Compiled by :Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.