Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Racaulfield, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Racaulfield
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.15312, -7.21428
- SMR number
- MO017-021----
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 on a shelf towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. It is not recorded on any map but it was described in 1942 (SMR file) as an oval level area with dimensions of ‘46 yds NW-SE by 37 yards NE-SW’ (c. 42m x c. 34m) defined by a scarp down to the interior E-S-W and an outer scarp elsewhere. There was no visible fosse or entrance but it was believed locally to be a burial ground, although this is unlikely.
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
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.