Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghaclogha, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghaclogha
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.30547, -7.01836
- SMR number
- MO006-013----
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 on a rise towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. It is depicted as a D-shaped feature defined by single banks and with the straight side at W on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as a D-shaped hachured feature on the 1907 edition. It is a visible as a slightly raised D-shaped and grass-covered area (dims c. 43m N-S; c. 34m E-W) defined by a scarp best preserved SE-SW (at S: Wth 2m; H 2.1m) where it is incorporated into a field bank and hedge.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.