Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Slieveroe, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slieveroe
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.17425, -6.99457
- SMR number
- MO013-039----
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 just off the crest of the N-facing slope of a small N-S drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on OS 6-inch maps. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 25.4m ENE-WSW; 23.4m NNW-SSE) that slopes down to the NE defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.9m), and an outer drain ESE-SSW but there is no visible fosse. The entrance (Wth of base 2.6m) is at ENE.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.