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Photo of a typical Notice (Irish: Fógra) at a national monument in the Republic of Ireland. Only three of Ulster's nine counties lie within the Republic. The other six counties make up Northern Ireland.

The Irish state has officially approved the following list of national monuments of Ireland. In the Republic of Ireland, a structure or site may be deemed to be a "national monument", and therefore worthy of state protection, if it is of national importance. If the land adjoining the monument is essential to protect it, this land may also be protected.

Only national monuments in Counties Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan are under the protection of the Irish Government as the rest of Ulster is part of Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland, such monuments are usually termed scheduled monuments and are under the protection of the Department for Communities, a department created by the Northern Ireland Executive in April 2016. Previously, such monuments were under the protection of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (N.I.E.A.), which was part of the former Department of the Environment (the D.o.E.).

National Monuments in Ulster

Cavan - Donegal - Monaghan

This list is initially sorted by county. If the list is sorted under another heading, the county links above will take you to the first item from the county in the sorted list

NM# Monument name Description Image Townland County Location
585 Cabragh Ringfort Ringfort Ringfort at Cabragh - geograph.org.uk - 505171.jpg Cabragh 54°03′14″N 7°06′32″W / 54.053887°N 7.109°W / 54.053887; -7.109
456 Cohaw Court Tomb Cohaw Megalithic Tomb at sunset.jpg Cohaw 54°03′27″N 7°01′05″W / 54.05738°N 7.01814°W / 54.05738; -7.01814
4 Drumlane Church & Round Tower Drumlane Church and Round Tower.JPG Drumlane 54°03′29″N 7°28′43″W / 54.05819°N 7.47872°W / 54.05819; -7.47872
585 Errigal Ringfort Ringfort Rath, Errigal (closer view) (geograph 2511547).jpg Errigal 54°03′57″N 7°06′12″W / 54.065817°N 7.103348°W / 54.065817; -7.103348
570 Gartnanoul Court Tomb Gartnanoul Court Tomb-1.jpg Gartnanoul 54°00′37″N 7°29′32″W / 54.01038°N 7.49210°W / 54.01038; -7.49210
602 Cloughoughter Castle Castle Clogh Oughter Castle Cavan Ireland geograph 1405851 by Oliver Dixon.jpg Inishconnell 54°01′07″N 7°27′17″W / 54.01871°N 7.45485°W / 54.01871; -7.45485
616 Lisnagowan Ringfort Ringfort Lisnagowan 54°03′32″N 7°18′14″W / 54.058911°N 7.303790°W / 54.058911; -7.303790
139.01 Glencolumbkille Church Church & Holy Well St Columba's Cell Glencolumbcille. - geograph.org.uk - 130559.jpg Beefan 54°43′05″N 8°44′19″W / 54.717984°N 8.738608°W / 54.717984; -8.738608
140 Grianan of Aileach Cashel Griahan of aileach.jpg Carrowreagh, Speenogue, Toulett 55°01′26″N 7°25′40″W / 55.02383°N 7.42766°W / 55.02383; -7.42766 (Grianan of Aileach)
139.02 Glencolumbkille Cashel Penitential Station Glencolumbcille - geograph.org.uk - 366316.jpg Cashel 54°42′39″N 8°43′29″W / 54.71085°N 8.72485°W / 54.71085; -8.72485
319 Doe Castle Castle Caislean na dTuath.JPG Creeslough 55°08′06″N 7°51′52″W / 55.135053°N 7.864323°W / 55.135053; -7.864323 (Doe Castle)
271 Carndonagh Cross Carndonagh High Cross and Pillars 2014 09 09.jpg Churchland Quarter, Clonca 55°15′00″N 7°16′20″W / 55.249955°N 7.272177°W / 55.249955; -7.272177
25 Clonca Church & Cross Church, High Cross & Grave Slab Clonca High Cross West Face and Church 2014 09 09.jpg Clonca 55°16′04″N 7°10′25″W / 55.267882°N 7.173547°W / 55.267882; -7.173547
174 Donegal Castle Castle Donegalcastle.jpg Donegal 54°39′18″N 8°06′39″W / 54.654922°N 8.110847°W / 54.654922; -8.110847 (Donegal Castle)
175 Donegal Abbey Friary (Franciscan) Donegal Friary SE 2009 09 23.jpg Glebe 54°39′01″N 8°06′55″W / 54.650389°N 8.115289°W / 54.650389; -8.115289 (Donegal Abbey)
658 Inishkeel Island Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site Church ruins, Inishkeel island. - geograph.org.uk - 135936.jpg Innishkeel Island 54°50′48″N 8°27′11″W / 54.846769°N 8.45295°W / 54.846769; -8.45295
139.03 Malin Beg (Glencolumbkille) Church & Ringfort Templecavan Church 2007 08 21.jpg Malin Beg 54°39′54″N 8°46′14″W / 54.665009°N 8.770639°W / 54.665009; -8.770639
139.04 Malin More (Glencolumbkille) Megalithic Tombs Malin More Portal Tomb 2015 09 07.jpg Malin More 54°40′57″N 8°43′15″W / 54.682566°N 8.720830°W / 54.682566; -8.720830
639 Newmills Corn and Flax Mills Milling Complex NewmillsCorn AndFlax Mills.jpg Milltown 54°55′45″N 7°48′31″W / 54.929152°N 7.80864°W / 54.929152; -7.80864
453 Pluck Standing Stone Standing Stone Pluck 54°56′23″N 7°38′11″W / 54.939586°N 7.636319°W / 54.939586; -7.636319
23 Ray Church Church & Cross Ray church cross falcarragh co donegal.jpg Ray (Raymunterdoney) 55°08′51″N 8°04′14″W / 55.147379°N 8.070682°W / 55.147379; -8.070682
463 Beltany Stone circle & standing stone Beltany Stone Circle P1180130.jpg Raphoe 54°51′02″N 7°36′17″W / 54.850417°N 7.604667°W / 54.850417; -7.604667 (Beltany)
24 Tory Island Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site Tory Island Cliffs 2005 08 10.jpg Tory Island 55°15′45″N 8°13′00″W / 55.2626°N 8.2168°W / 55.2626; -8.2168 (Tory Island)
435 O'Doherty's Keep Castle Buncrana O'Daherty's Castle N 2014 09 12.jpg Tullyarvan 55°08′23″N 7°27′52″W / 55.139652°N 7.464566°W / 55.139652; -7.464566
111 Clones Round Tower Round Tower Clones Round Tower - geograph.org.uk - 692357.jpg Crossmoyle 54°10′41″N 7°13′52″W / 54.178041°N 7.231036°W / 54.178041; -7.231036
112 Clones High Cross High Cross High Cross, Clones - geograph.org.uk - 692330.jpg Crossmoyle 54°10′46″N 7°13′57″W / 54.179470°N 7.232628°W / 54.179470; -7.232628
111 Clones Church Church Abbey of St. Peter - Paul, Clones. - geograph.org.uk - 692349.jpg Crossmoyle 54°10′41″N 7°13′52″W / 54.178041°N 7.231036°W / 54.178041; -7.231036
382 Mannan Castle Castle (Motte & Bailey) Mannan Castle, Co. Monaghan - geograph.org.uk - 609123.jpg Donaghmoyne 54°00′33″N 6°41′57″W / 54.009249°N 6.699125°W / 54.009249; -6.699125
208 Inishkeen Glebe Round Tower Round Tower Inniskeenroundtower.jpg Inishkeen Glebe 54°00′13″N 6°34′44″W / 54.00368°N 6.578758°W / 54.00368; -6.578758
564 Mullyash Kerbed Cairn Kerbed cairn Lane to Mullyash Cairn - geograph.org.uk - 1442690.jpg Mullyash, Tavanaskea 54°10′27″N 6°40′10″W / 54.174201°N 6.669410°W / 54.174201; -6.669410
367 Cairnbaine Court Tomb Tiredigan 54°11′50″N 7°04′29″W / 54.197304°N 7.074721°W / 54.197304; -7.074721

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