Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Derryrellan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryrellan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.39010, -7.04329
- SMR number
- MO003-049----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a drumlin. A subrectangular wood with rounded corners defined by a field bank is depicted as on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map, and it is known locally as a ‘fort’. This is a subrectangular area (max. dims c. 110m N-S; c. 80m E-W) defined by a field bank with an outer ditch. The interior is wooded and waterlogged. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Date of revised upload: 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.