Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Raferagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raferagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97943, -6.85403
- SMR number
- MO030-018006-
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 were two hut-sites inside the inner enclosure of hilltop enclosure (MO030-018001-), and three in the outer but some of these have been damaged since 1967. This hut-site is inside the perimeter of the hilltop enclosure at S. It is a subcircular area (int. dims 3.9m E-W), the N half of which is overgrown with furze, and it is defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 2.1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.3m). It has an external diameter of 9.5m E-W. Hut-site (MO030-018005-) is just to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 25 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.