Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Neolithic
Monanny, County Monaghan, Ireland
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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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
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.