
What is recorded here
Located in a fold between drumlins, the summits of which are c. 200-250m to the NW and NNE. There is a local belief that there was a ‘cave’, probably a Man-made underground passage, N of a farmhouse in Killark, but there is no reference to it from Killark school in the Schools’ Manuscripts from the 1930s, for which see this web-page accessed on 15/06/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723809 If it exists its precise location cannot be identified.
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 June 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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