Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Stranoodan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stranoodan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnashelitta
- Coordinates
- 54.17795, -7.00990
- SMR number
- MO013-035----
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 a slight rise toward the bottom of a S-facing slope, with a small canalised W-E stream c. 180m to the S. It is described as ‘Lisnashelitta’ on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 30.5m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank separated by a fosse from an outer overgrown earthen bank, which has an external fosse surviving WSW-NE. There is an entrances at N which is probably modern but the original is likely to be that trough the inner (Wth of base 3.3m) and outer (Wth of base 3m) banks with a causeway (Wth of base 4.5m; H 0.45m) at SSE.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 23 February 2018
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- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.