Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Oghill (farney By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oghill (farney By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99728, -6.61769
- SMR number
- MO032-002----
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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 the summit and the SW-facing side of a small NW-SE drumlin ridge. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30m N-S) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3m) SSE-W-NNW with an entrance gap (Wth c. 4m) at SW and backing onto the W boundary of a wooded fox covert at E is recorded on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AOX: 75, 76) dating from c. 1973. This enclosure is eccentrically placed within a larger enclosure (diam. c. 90m N-S) recorded as a single fosse (Wth c. 3m) feature S-NNW on the aerial photographs, which also backs onto the covert at E. The space between the fosses is c. 20-30m. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 21 September 2018
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
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- Souterrainunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.