Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrylea Beg, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrylea Beg
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.37826, -7.02364
- SMR number
- MO003-023----
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 on a knoll towards the bottom of a N-facing slope and overlooking a small S-N stream c. 30m to the W. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims 30.4m NE-SW; 26.2m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with traces of an external fosse, most visible at S and N (Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 1.6m; ext. D 0.2m). An entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) with traces of a causeway at NNE 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.