Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumhirk (dartree By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumhirk (dartree By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.16793, -7.06577
- SMR number
- MO018-001----
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 at the crest of the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 33m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank that is best preserved (at S: Wth of base 5.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.8m) NNW-E-S and is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (at S: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 1m) from an outer bank SSW-WNW. The fosse is replaced by a farm lane NNW-NNE and the outer bank is incorporated into a field bank NNE-SE. There are many gaps in the banks but the 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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 18 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.