Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Altartate Glebe, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Altartate Glebe
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18212, -7.21026
- SMR number
- MO012-057----
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 S-facing slope of a drumlin, and indicated only on the 1907 edition of the 6-inch map by a curved field bank W-N-E. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 38m E-W; 36.7m N-S) sloping down steeply to the S which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 4m; int. H 2m; ext. H 2m) and outer fosse (at N: Wth of base 1.5m; ext. D 1.5m) W-N-E. The original entrance is not identified.
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 17 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.