Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullagh Otra, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagh Otra
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.37793, -7.04700
- SMR number
- MO003-022----
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 steep E-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a circular overgrown area (int. diam. 43.4m ENE-WSW) sloping down steeply to the E, which is defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 7m; Wth of top 1.7m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 2m) S-W-N which is reduced to a scarp (at E: Wth 1.7m; H 1.3m) elsewhere. There are traces of an external fosse NNW-NE that has morphed into a drain S-NW. There are modern gaps in the bank at WSW, W and NW, but the original entrance is at SE
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
- Hilltop enclosureunder 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.