Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Figullar, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Figullar
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.37158, -6.92290
- SMR number
- MO003-034----
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 of a drumlin. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 38m NE-SW; 32m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 3.5m; Wth of top 2m; int. H 0.3m) WSW-N-ENE, with an external fosse and traces of an external bank NW-E. The inner bank is incorporated into a field bank and the fosse has been deepened S-W-NW, while the monument is slightly truncated by a NE-SW field bank at SE. There are entrance gaps at S (Wth of base 2.2m) and E (Wth of base 3.4m), but the latter is more likely to 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
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.