Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Cloghvally Lower, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghvally Lower
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fin McCools Table
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fin McCools Table (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.99720, -6.73245
- SMR number
- MO031-010----
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
It is described in gothic lettering as ‘Fin McCool’s Table’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and the OS Memoirs record that 'it is said that there once was a cromlech and the pieces of rock of which it was composed were not long since destroyed for the purposes of being converted into lime in the kiln at the side of the cliff’ (RIA Box 49, Magheross Parish, p. 22a). No archaeological feature is visible at ground level.
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 upload: 17 July 2007
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.