Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Magherashaghry, County Monaghan, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.