What is recorded here
Situated on the W-facing slope of a drumlin. A small triangular area (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 50m N-S at E) with the apex at W between the main road from Monaghan to Castleshane (N2) and a minor road off it to the NE is described in italic lettering as a ‘Grave Yard’ only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The area…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO009-044
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Brian Lenehan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Raymond Okonski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
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