Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Lattonfasky, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lattonfasky
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Labbyfirmore
- Coordinates
- 54.07889, -6.79883
- SMR number
- MO024-025----
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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)
- 1811 · 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
Located on a terrace just below the crest of a W-facing slope. It is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Cromlech’ and it is described as ‘Labbyfirmore’ – the bed of the big men – on the 1907 edition. This is a circular grass and furze-covered cairn (diam. c. 20m) with evidence of three cists. One cist consists of a large capstone supported on two long side-stones and one end-stone. A second cist to the SW is roofed by a single large roof-stone supported by six slender upright stones. The third cist is only visible as portion of what might be a roof-stone buried I in the cairn just S of an E-W field bank that overlies the N part of the cairn.
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: 9 May 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.