Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Latnakelly, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Latnakelly
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.17930, -6.77721
- SMR number
- MO014-035----
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 top of a small NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This is a grass and scrub-covered subcircular area (dims 34m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SSE: Wth of base 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m). There is no visible fosse but outside the bank is a field bank and hedge that has an outer drain N-SSE, and the field bank is replaced by a masonry wall W-NW where it borders a NE-SW farm road. The entrance (Wth of base 3m) in the rath bank is at ENE. The interior has become overgrown since 1968 (OSAP).
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
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.