Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clondinnery, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clondinnery
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14938, -7.14936
- SMR number
- MO017-038----
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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 drumlin. This rath or the one in Drumree (MO017-037----) could be the earthwork depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). Although it is not depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map it is on the 1907 edition. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 21.5m N-S; 20.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 2.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) that is largely reduced to an overgrown scarp, with a drain at its base S-WNW. The perimeter is planted with deciduous trees, and it has a break in the perimeter at NNW that appears to be damage but an original entrance is not identified.
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
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.