Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghalissabeagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghalissabeagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26320, -7.12482
- SMR number
- MO008-005----
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 on the W and N-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 26.6m NNW-SSE; 24.6m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 5.3m; Wth of top 1.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5m) and hedge SE-W-NW that is reduced to a scarp and hedge elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but there is a farm track outside the bank E-S. The present entrance (Wth of top 2.5m) is at ESE.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.