Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Skerrick West, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skerrick West
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10437, -7.26005
- SMR number
- MO021-005----
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 on a rise with rock outcrop at the bottom of a S-facing slope. This was described in the 1940s as ‘a small mound of stones about 8 feet across and not more than 2 high (c. 2.45m; c. 0.6m), bounded by a kerb of rather large stones. Towards the north side of the mound stands a quarried block with rather sharp edges, 3’ x 1’ 8” x 4’ 6” high (c. 0.9m; c. 0.5m; c. 1.35m)’ (SMR file).
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: 21 June 2018
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.