Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Corgreagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corgreagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ancient Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graveyard (disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.02066, -6.93007
- SMR number
- MO026-008002-
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 a drumlin, and against the perimeter of hilltop enclosure (MO026-008001-) at SE-S. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims 23.5m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (at NNW: Wth of base 3.2m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m) SW-N-E backing onto the perimeter of the hilltop enclosure E-SW, with an entrance (Wth 2m) at N. The interior has some stones which may have served as grave-markers.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 26 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.