Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derryleedigan (jackson), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryleedigan (jackson)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26733, -7.12605
- SMR number
- MO008-004----
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 the summit of a drumlin. This is a subcircular domed and grass-covered area (dims 59m NE-SW: 52m NW-SE) that slopes down to the SW defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 3.4m; Wth of top 1.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.8m) and hedge with slight traces of an outer fosse W-N, but the perimeter is largely reduced to a scarp (H 1.1-1.6m) and hedge. A ramp entrance rises tangentially up the scarp at SSE.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 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.