Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shanmullagh South, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanmullagh South
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20751, -7.17830
- SMR number
- MO012-016----
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 at the crest of the SE-facing slope of a broad NE-SW ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. it is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m E-W; 37.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (at S: Wth 2m; H 1.45m) and a hedge with slight traces of a bank (at S: Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.3m) S-SW, and an outer fosse (at S: Wth of base 0.8m; D 0.3m). There is a modern ramp entrance at S.
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: 29 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 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.