Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Maghernakill, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maghernakill
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Entrenchment
- Coordinates
- 54.07653, -6.67606
- SMR number
- MO025-044----
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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 the ridge of a NW-SE drumlin. It is depicted as a dotted line (L c. 145m) running parallel with and c. 5m SW of a NW-SE field boundary only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as the site of an ‘Ancient Entrenchment’. Davies (1955, 33) noted that no archaeological feature survived here. It may be part of the Black Pig’s Dyke, and the Drumgristin section (MO025-046----) is c. 700m to the ESE.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 February 2018
References
Davies, O. 1955, The Black Pig's Dyke. Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 18, 29-36.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.