Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Edenaferkin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edenaferkin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14564, -6.94199
- SMR number
- MO018-028----
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 the broad summit of a drumlin. An oval enclosure (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) is depicted faintly on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is depicted as an arc of hachures NE-S-SW on the 1907 edition. Traces of the perimeter survive in a scarp (Wth 3m; H c. 1.2m) incorporated in a field bank and hedge E-SW (Chord c. 30m), but there is no other surface evidence of the monument.
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: 18 June 2018
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.