Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ivy Hill, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ivy Hill
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.39749, -6.99146
- SMR number
- MO003-012----
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 at the N end of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown subcircular area (int. dims 37.8m N-S; 34m E-W) surrounded by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. There is a modern entrance at W, but the original entrance through the inner (Wth at base 5.5m) and outer (Wth 12m) banks with a causeway (Wth of top 9.2m) is at ENE. The outer bank is incorporated into a field bank and has a modern external drain NW-NE.
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
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
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- 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.