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Burial ground

Drumgristin Upper, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Drumgristin Upper, 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
Drumgristin Upper
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Caldragh Ancient Burial Gd.
Latest-edition OS map
Caldragh Grave Yard (Site of)
Coordinates
53.98585, -6.61985
SMR number
MO032-004001-

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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 towards the bottom of the undulating E-facing slope of a drumlin. It is depicted faintly as trapezoidal feature (dims c. 20-4-m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) described in gothic lettering as a ‘Caldragh’ or ‘Ancient Burial Ground’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level, but there is a local tradition of bones and headstones being found during ploughing. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture but it is within an ecclesiastical enclosure (MO032-004003-), and the bullaun stone (MO032-004002-) is against the field bank just to the ESE.

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.

Date of revision: 27 July 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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