Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumcoo (brady), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcoo (brady)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.31248, -7.05179
- SMR number
- MO006-031----
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 slight rise at the bottom of a W-facing slope. Traces of an enclosure are visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: H 271/272) from the 1970s. This is a raised overgrown area, which is known locally as a ‘fort’.
Date of revised upload: 29 August 2017
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.