Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gorticleave, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorticleave
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.37859, -6.97998
- SMR number
- MO003-025----
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 E end of a low E-W ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 4m; Wth of top 1.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.7m) with some bushes that only survives S-W and is reduced to a scarp (at NW: Wth 0.8m; ext. H 1.2m) W-N, but the perimeter does not survive elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable 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
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.