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Fortification

Concra, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fortification, Concra, 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
Concra
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.10911, -6.70304
SMR number
MO025-048----

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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)
  • 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

Situated at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a hill in the demesne of Castleblayney. This has never been recorded on any map. It is described (Delaney 1998, 5) as ‘an embanked area defined by a ditch (int. H 2m) on the NE side with a stone facing on the uphill side, creating a level area inside. It is suggested that it might have had a military function in the seventeenth century, but it is just as likely to be a folly on the Castleblayney estate like so many other features in the demesne. It is no longer extant on a golf course (OSAP).
Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 27 February 2018

References

Delaney, D. 1998 Archaeological assesment at Lough Muckno Leisure Park and Concra Wood, Castleblaney, Co Monaghan. Unpublished report, National Monuments Section, Heritage and Planning Division, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.

OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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