Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Desert, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Desert
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.32492, -6.92532
- SMR number
- MO006-008----
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
Situated towards the W end of a low E-W ridge in a low-lying landscape, and it is also in a loop of the W-E Mountain Water River with the stream c. 100-200m to the NW, SW and SE. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. There is no evidence of an antiquity apart from a slight curve (Chord c. 20m N-S) in a field bank that represents the W edge of the monument, but a NE-SW field bank traverses its interior.
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: 29 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.