Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Drumgristin Upper, County Monaghan, Ireland
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-
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 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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.