Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kinduff, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinduff
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14239, -7.06084
- SMR number
- MO018-029----
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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 the E summit of an E-W drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 35m N-S; 34.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank that is largely reduced to a scarp (at E: H 1.25m; at SW: Wth 3m; H 1.8m) and hedge with traces of an outer fosse that is completely missing SE-SW where there are farm buildings. The original entrance is not identified. Archaeological testing (08E0219) immediately to the S produced no related material (Tierney 2011).
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
Amended: 16 January 2020
References
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
Tierney, M. 2011 997. Kinduff. 19th century farming activity. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 296. Dublin, Wordwell
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.