Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Maghernakill, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maghernakill
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07475, -6.67250
- SMR number
- MO025-052----
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
Situated on top of and on the SE-facing spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This enclosure is not marked on any edition of the OS maps. A large circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 170m) was identified from a LiDAR survey (pers. comm. Steve Davis). It appears to be a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 90m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base c. 10m) and outer bank (Wth c. c. 15m). There might be a large entrance at NE. It is divided by a NW-SE field bank on the spine of the ridge with a larger part of the enclosure NE of this bank.
The attached image (MO025-052----_01.jpg) is uploaded courtesy of Dr. Steve Davis, UCD.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
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- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.