Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortgranard, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortgranard
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.16777, -7.19330
- SMR number
- MO017-003----
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 a rise at the bottom of a steep NW-facing slope and on the flood plain of an E-W section of the Finn River, with a SE-NW part of the stream c. 50m to the NE. It is depicted as a small circular feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a larger feature with an outer fosse NE-S-W and incorporating a field bank W-NE on the 1907 edition. The monument was removed before 1968 but was then visible as a slightly raised and circular grass-covered area (diam. 18.25m E-W; 17.5m N-S) defined by a fosse feature visible as a band of richer vegetation (max. Wth 3.8m). It is visible faintly as an enclosure defined by two fosse features (max. ext. diam. c. 60m) on aerial images from 1995 (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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 8 May 2018
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.