Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dernagola, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dernagola
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.38837, -7.01819
- SMR number
- MO003-010----
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 towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin, with a NW-SE stream curving around it NE-S c. 35-40m distant. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 41.6m NNW-SSE; 38m ENE-WSW) defined by the remains of two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. The outer bank is visible only at N, and the fosse is incorporated in a field drain at W-NW. There is an entrance gap at S (Wth of base 2.5m) and another through the inner bank at N (Wth of base 1.1m) with a causeway (Wth of top 2.2m; H 0.45m) across the fosse, and it might be the original entrance.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.