Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castleshane Demesne, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleshane Demesne
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.22824, -6.87900
- SMR number
- MO014-002----
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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 just off the crest of a N-S drumlin ridge on the E side. It is depicted as a circular hachured feature in woodland only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular area (diam. 25m N-S; 24.8m E-W) that slopes down to the E within deciduous woodland defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 3.3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.3m) with an external fosse or drain (at W: Wth of top 1.5m; Wth of base 0.6m; ext. D 0.65m). There is no identifiable original entrance.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.