Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Fincarn, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fincarn
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fincarn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Finn MacCools Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.07079, -6.74185
- SMR number
- MO025-023----
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
Located at the summit of Fincairn Hill, a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is traditionally thought to be the burial place of Fin Mac Cool (IFC Schools’ MSS (931) 183-8: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes ). It consists of a kerb of orthostats enclosing a grass-covered stony rise (diam. c. 20m; H c. 1m). The contiguous kerbstones (max. dims c. 1m x c. 0.5m; H 0.1-0.7m) survive on the N side of an ENE-WSW field bank but five displaced stones are on the S side.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 27 February 2018
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.