Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clanickny, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clanickny
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.30279, -6.86674
- SMR number
- MO007-008----
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
Located at the summit of and towards the N end of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. A circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.5m N-S; 31m E-W) is defined by a slight scarp, with a small bank and outer fosse extant NW-NE and it merges into a NNW-SSE field bank at E.
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: 30 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosure1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.