Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullanacross (trough By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullanacross (trough By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.38762, -6.99094
- SMR number
- MO003-016----
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
Located at the crest of the S-facing slope at the S end of a N-S drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small embanked enclosure described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 31m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by traces of an earthen bank with an external fosse that are incorporated into a field bank and outer drain ENE-S-WSW while the perimeter is reduced to a slight scarp elsewhere. The entrance is not identifiable.
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: 17 July 2007
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.