Druids Circle, megalithic tomb in County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Located at the summit of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. It is described as a ‘Druid’s Circle’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and as the site of a ‘Cromlech’ on the 1907 edition. Ordinance Survey Memoirs record 'the partial remains of a Druidical Circle the extent of which cannot be traced' (RIA Box 49, Muckno Parish, 16), and Shirley (1879, 515) describes them as ‘some standing-stones’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO015-006

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Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Fintan McTiernan; published by Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com
Sean Davis, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Fintan McTiernan / Monaghan GAA official Flickr, www.flickr.com

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