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Burial

Monanny, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, 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
53.98954, -6.71612
SMR number
MO031-128----

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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

A single supine inhumation, orientated E-W, was discovered close to the river prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 03E0888). This was an adult of indeterminate sex aged between 33 and 48 years and produced a calibrated radiocarbon date of AD 1216-1286 (Walsh 2012, 98). A small quantity of disarticulated were found further W. (Walsh 2006, 406)

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. 2012 A tale of two townlands (Part II) Clogher Record, vol. 21, No. 1, 91-101.

Nearby in the register

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

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