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Road - hollow-way

Monaltyduff, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - hollow-way, Monaltyduff, 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
Monaltyduff
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.96683, -6.69481
SMR number
MO031-139----

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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

Located on a slight N-facing slope down to a small canalized WSW-ENE stream (L c. 400m) connecting Lough Naglack just to the W with Moynalty Lough c. 400m to the E. The line of an old road is depicted faintly on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map approaching Broken Bridge from the S while the present line is depicted running parallel with it just to the W. A hollow way (L c. 200m) is visible as a sunken area (Wth of top c. 4.5m; Wth of base 2.75m; D 0.6-0.75m) with a straight edge on the W side running S-N towards the bridge, which is probably an eighteenth century structure with one arch (Coughlan 2003, Fig. 22, Pl. 17). Archaeological testing (02E1212) in four trenches across the N end of the hollow way showed topsoil (D 0.15-0.2m) lying directly on subsoil and produced no datable material (Coughlan 2009, 6-7). Much of the hollow way survives undisturbed in a wood bordering the E side of the present by-road.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 14 January 2020

References

Coughlan, T. 2003 Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Testing of the the N2 Carrickmacross – Aclint Road Realignment. Licence No. 03E0388. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Coughlan, T. 2009 Report on Archaeological Assessment at Site 105; Hollowway. N2 Carrickmacross – Aclint Road Realignment. Licence No. 03E0388. Unpublished report Irish Archaeological Consultancy,

Nearby in the register

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

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