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House - Neolithic

Monanny, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - Neolithic, Monanny, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Monanny
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.98944, -6.71593
SMR number
MO031-124----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 03E0888) and situated on a gentle S-facing slope in a low-lying area with a SW-NE section of a small meandering stream just to the S. Excavation revealed the walls of a rectangular structure (10m E-W x 7m N-S) with a possible entrance at the NW. A large assemblage of early Neolithic pottery was recovered from the post-holes and slot trenches. The W wall appears to have been burnt down which probably led to abandonment of the structure. It produced a calibrated C14 date of 3766-3637 BC, and it was found in association with two other Neolithic structures (MO031-125---- and MO031-126----). (Walsh 2006, 404; 2011, 505-07)

Date of revised upload: 27 July 2017

References

Walsh F. 2006, Monanny 1, Neolithic, Bronze Age, post-medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 404-6 (No. 1503). Bray. Wordwell

Walsh, F. 2011 A tale of two townlands (Part I) Clogher Record, vol. 20, No. 3, 500-20.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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