What is recorded here

The Cashell is a court tomb in County Monaghan where a broad trapezoidal cairn still holds a deep northern court and a single surviving gallery stone. It sleeps inside a small triangular coniferous plantation, hidden between local summits yet marked on old maps as The Cashel. People may have built it to keep the dead company under open sky before forests closed the horizon.

Situated in a slight col between local summits c. 120m to the N and c. 340m to the SE in an undulating landscape. It is marked on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘The Cashel’ and it is now in a small triangular coniferous plantation. It is probably a court-tomb with a roughly trapezoidal cairn (L 29m N-S; Wth 18m) incorporating at the N end a deep U-shaped court (L 6.5m; Wth 3.6m). The gallery is represented by a single side stone. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 June 2018

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