Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickanure, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickanure
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.17642, -6.82664
- SMR number
- MO014-032----
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 W-facing slope of a broad NW-SE ridge. It is depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with trees on the perimeter on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering a ‘fort’ and as a circular field on the 1907 edition. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m) and hedge SSW-NW-NE. There is no visible fosse or entrance and the bank NE-SSW was removed c. 1955 but its line is visible.
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: 26 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.