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Linear earthwork

Magherashaghry, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, Magherashaghry, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Magherashaghry
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.10552, -7.17841
SMR number
MO022-023----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a broad NE-SW ridge and c. 700m E of the east end of one of the longest surviving portions of the Black Pig’s Dyke (MO021-011----) and c. 250m S of the hilltop enclosure (MO022-005----). A small portion of a defaced earthen bank and ditch aligned N-S (L c. 100m) was considered locally to be part of the linear earthwork.

Revised by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 20 June 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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