Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghadrumcru, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghadrumcru
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.40406, -7.00287
- SMR number
- MO001-008----
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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
Located on a N-S drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown area (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by an earthen bank (at SSW: Wth of base 5m; Wth of top 1.3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m), which is incorporated into a field bank at N and reduced to a scarp at E where an attempt may have been made to truncate it. There is an outer fosse (at SSW: Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 0.5m) SE-W, but 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.
Date of revision: 25 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.