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Ringfort - rath

Stranoodan, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Stranoodan, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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