  We investigate the monopole-instanton correlation in SU(2) lattice gauge
theory using a renormalisation group inspired smoothing technique. We look at
the properties of monopole clusters and their correlation with instantons.
Since the action of the smoothed configurations is dominated by instantons we
compare the smoothed Monte Carlo lattices to artificially reconstructed
configurations with the same instanton content but no other fluctuations. Both
parallel and randomly rotated (in group space) instanton ensembles are
considered.
