Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonisboyle, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonisboyle
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.41092, -7.02694
- SMR number
- MO001-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 34.6m E-W; 32.3m N-S) that slopes down slightly to the E, which is defined by a complete but overgrown earthen bank. This is separated by a fosse from the remnants of an outer earthen bank NNE-E. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.1m) and outer (Wth of base 1.7m) banks and a causeway (Wth 3m; H 0.15m) at E. The rath has become overgrown since 1968.
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: 24 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.