Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garran Otra Or Gibraltar, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garran Otra Or Gibraltar
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25087, -6.87205
- SMR number
- MO010-006----
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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 towards the bottom of the S-facing spine of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) just SW of some houses and described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There is no visible evidence of an antiquity just SW of an abandoned farmyard.
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: 26 January 2018
Revised by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.