Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumhay, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumhay
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.11938, -7.11663
- SMR number
- MO017-066----
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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 at the SW summit of a short NE-SW drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted as an earthwork on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a raised subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 39m N-S; c. 33.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.2m) largely reduced to an external overgrown scarp (H c. 1.7-3m), and a shallow fosse (Wth c. 2.75m) SSW-W-NN. The fosse is replaced by a farm lane NNE-SE and is slightly curtailed by an outer field bank SSW-W but is not visible elsewhere. There is an entrance ramp (Wth of base 1.9m) with low banks (Wth c. 1m; H 0.9m) on either side that has probably been modernised at SSW.
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: 9 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.