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Souterrain

Moylemuck, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Moylemuck, 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
Moylemuck
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
not indicated
Coordinates
54.07964, -7.02240
SMR number
MO023-016002-

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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

A sunken area (dims 9m E-W; 2.9m N-S; max. D 0.7m at W) with no stones or other features visible runs from just W of the centre of rath (MO023-016001-) to a modern gap in the perimeter at W. It might be the remains of a collapsed souterrain.

Revised by: Michael MMore

Date of revised upload: 19 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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