Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pound
Candlefort, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Candlefort
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pound
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00212, -6.57759
- SMR number
- MO029-032----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on a shelf towards the bottom of a N-facing slope and Immediately NE of the motte and bailey (MO029-033001-). It is depicted as a rectangular enclosure divided in two by an E-W cross-wall and described as a 'Pound' in italic letters on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) with high stone walls that had a wide round-headed entrance through a large arch in the W wall. Only the lower courses of the N and E walls survive now.
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.