Killark

Area

22,135 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Killark

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Annagheane Lough 001836

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• MO021-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the S end of a short N-S drumlin ridge which is known as ‘Doon’, meaning a fort. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 27m NE-SW; 21.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H c. 0.5m; ext. H c. 2m) NNW-NE which is largely reduced to a scarp and hedge that has a field bank at its base WSW-WNW. The original entrance is not identified with certainly but it might be the gap (Wth of base 1m) at SSW. The interior has become overgrown since 1968 (OSAP). 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: 21 June 2018

• MO021-011 Linear earthwork
  Description

  The Black Pig’s Dyke is a name that is generally applied to a number of linear earthworks in the south Ulster and north Connaught regions by the map-makers. They form discontinuous sections extending mostly through drumlin country from Donegal Bay in the west almost as far as Dundalk Bay in the east. Other names are the ‘Worm’s Ditch’ or the ‘Worm’s Cast’, and in Co. Cavan the ‘Duncla’. Similar earthworks, like the Dane’s Cast and the Dorsey in Co. Armagh, could be part of the same phenomenon. Linear earthworks have been regarded as providing border defence, but their entire length could hardly have been defended, and it might be more reasonable to suggest that they were constructed to control access points and to hinder cattle raiding (Raftery 1994, 87). Linear earthworks can date from the Late Bronze Age up to the high medieval period, but the Black Pig’s Dyke dates mainly to the Iron Age (c. 500BC-c. 500 AD). It has recently been studied in detail (Ó Drisceoil et al. 2014), and an article on the Monaghan section is published (Ó Drisceoil 2017). In Co. Monaghan, apart from two short sections (MO025-044----; MO025-046----) at the E edge of the county close to the Armagh boundary, one long section extends E from a NE-SW section of the Finn river, south of Scotshouse, at the most western point of the county. From the river at Cornapaste – Corr na Péiste, the hill or hollow of the worm – it runs SE through Annagheane and Killark connecting Laurel Lough and Drumcor Lough. From the E end of Drumcor it turns NE (L c. 670m), rising up Doon Hill in Drumavan, before resuming a meandering eastward course through Skerrick West and Corrackan to Aghernaskew. The section to Aghernaskew is poorly preserved and represented as a dotted line on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Eastwards from Aghernaskew it survives in generally good condition through the townlands of Lattacrossan, Aghareagh West, and Corrinary where it takes another turn to the N (L c. 300m) before curving eastwards through Drumurcher where it doesn’t survive visibly and connects with a small pot lake meering with Drumgrone, on the E side of which it crosses the NE-SW Bunoe River and comes to an end (total L c. 6.8km). The earthwork was usually positioned in the valleys and hollows between drumlins, and where it is on a slope it is generally S-facing. Where it survives intact it consists of two banks with associated fosses on the up-slope side or a bank with fosses on either side. Where two banks are present the northern is invariably the stronger. Modern investigations of this earthwork began with Walsh’s excavation (E000839) of a NE-SW portion at Aghareagh West in 1982, which provides a good sample of its original appearance (Walsh 1987; 1991). Before excavation and from the NW it consisted of a fosse (Wth of top 7m; ext. D c. 1m), the wide N bank (Wth of base c. 7m; H over NW c. 3m; H over SE c. 3m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top c. 8.5-9m) from the SE bank (Wth of base 4.5m; H over NW and SE c. 1.2-1.4mm), and the earthworks have a total width of c. 24m. A palisade trench (Wth 0.5m; D 0.9m) that had been burnt was found outside the NW fosse. No artefacts were recovered from the excavation, but samples of carbon from the palisade trench produced a revised C14 date of 310 cal. BC to cal. AD 140 (Ó Drisceoil 2014, 78-9). A gradiometer survey (19R0233) by H. Gimson (2019) of the fields to the NW and SE of Walsh's excavation recorded intimations of numerous pits and possible enclosures. Archaeological testing (98E0245) uncovered an area of brushwood just S of the line of the earthwork at the W edge Cornapaste townland (Moore 2000), but further testing (05E0657) S of its line in the same area produced no related material (O’Hara 2005). However, archaeological testing (05E0915) adjacent to a section at the E end of Lattacrossan townland on the N side of the earthwork produced evidence of a palisade in a layer of burnt clay running parallel with the earthwork which was preserved in situ (Meenan 2008). A remote sensing survey conducted at Corrinary as part of the regional study confirmed the form of the linear earthwork as a double ditch feature with evidence of a burnt palisade trench outside the N ditch (Grimson 2014). As confirmation of these features Meehan (2008) in a limited test excavation (05E0915) at Lattacrossan recorded a spread of burnt clay running parallel with a NE-SW section of the linear earthwork on the NW side. Revised by: Michael Moore Revised date of upload: 8 May 2018 Amended: 14 January 2020 A section of this monument, in the townland of Annagheane, is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1990). O’Hara 2005 Archaeological Assessment, Cornapaste, Co. Monaghan. Licence No. 05E06557. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services

• MO022-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the S-facing slope of a small N-S ridge that is on the summit of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. A NW-SE section of the Black Pig’s Dyke (MO021-011----) is c. 10m to the NE. This is a circular grass and reed-covered area (diam. 40.7m NW-SE; 39.5m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1.2-1.5m) and hedge E-S-NW, with an outer fosse evident at NW (Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.3m) but replaced by a drain elsewhere. The perimeter is formed by a NE-SW field bank NW-N, and by a low scarp N-E, on the side close to the linear earthwork. The original entrance is not 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 20 June 2018

• MO022-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a SW-facing slope. This field is at the E end of the largest section of the Black Pig’s Dyke in Co. Monaghan (MO021-011----), and it was known in the 1940s as ‘the fort field’, but there was no evidence of an earthwork then and the precise location of any fort is not known. 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: 20 June 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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