Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - hollow-way
Monaltyduff, County Monaghan, Ireland
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----
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
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 Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy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 Unpublished report Irish Archaeological Consultancy,
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