Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Lenagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lenagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.35454, -6.96878
- SMR number
- MO003-038----
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
Occupying the summit of a small drumlin. This monument is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure defined by field banks but which is described in gothic lettering as a 'fort'. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 95m NE-SW; 64m E-W) defined by a scarp varying in dimension from NE (Wth 2.6m; H 1.1m) to W (Wth 2m; H 1.45m), with a field bank and hedge outside the scarp SW-W-NE, and E-ESE but the scarp supports the hedge elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but there is a broad entrance (Wth c. 8m) at ESE.
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
- 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.