Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Eden Island, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eden Island
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26797, -6.94219
- SMR number
- MO009-027----
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 at the N end of a small N-S ridge, with a SE-NW section of the Blackwater River curving around it from SW (c. 1600m distant)-E-NE (c. 170m distant). This is a raised oval grass-covered area (dims 37m NNW-SSE; 30.4m ENE-WSW) defined by a scarp (Wth 0.2-1m; H 1.3-2m) and hedge, with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 2.6m; D 0.2m) SSW-WNW. There is an entrance gap at S, and a modern ramp entrance at SE.
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: 13 December 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.