Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Luppan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Luppan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.38459, -7.04294
- SMR number
- MO003-021----
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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 NE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a circular overgrown area (int. diam. c. 30m NNE-SSW) that slopes down slightly to the E defined by a large earthen bank (ext. H c. 3m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base c. 2.5m; ext. D c. 1m) from an outer bank, which may be a field bank as it is separated by a berm (Wth c. 2-3m) from the outer edge of the fosse. There is an entrance through the inner bank (Wth of base 2.6m) and traces of a causeway at ENE.
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
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.