Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortakeeghan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortakeeghan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23592, -6.99539
- SMR number
- MO009-064----
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 facing slope at the W end of an E-W ridge with the half of the monument incorporated into Gortakeeghan wood. This is an oval area (max. dim. c. 27m), defined on the N, S and E sides by a flat topped earthen bank (H c. 1.2m) and an external fosse (Wth c. 2.5m). A modern field boundary, aligned NNE-SSW, cuts through the centre. West of this field boundary the monument has been removed although there are still slight traces of the fosse (CRDS 1998, 33). Archaeological testing (06E0234) in an extensive area just to the W produced no related material (Lynch 2009).
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
Amended: 14 January 2020
References
CRDS (Cultural Resource Development Services) 1998 Summary of Archaeological Assessments prepared for Monaghan Water Supply Augmentation Scheme (Stage 3). Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of the Environment Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.
Lynch, R. 2009 1673. Gortakeeghan. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 445. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.