Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Candlefort, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Candlefort
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00180, -6.57861
- SMR number
- MO029-033002-
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
There is a report that the motte at Inishkeen (MO029-03001-) contains an underground passage that was open in the early nineteenth century. An old man describes how as a boy he entered ‘a large passage lined with stones and covered with large flags. He came to a recess or small chamber where he found a well of water’ (Reade 1874-5, 326).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 29 August 2017
References
Reade, Rev. G. H. 1874-5 Proceedings: On a prick-spur of bronze gilt, found in the Mound of Ash, Co. Louth. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 13, 322-26.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Poundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.