Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumintin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumintin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11517, -7.06002
- SMR number
- MO018-045----
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 W end of an E-W ridge, which is one of the summits of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular area (diam. 34.3m NE-SW; 33.5m NW-SE) planted in coniferous trees and defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 2.9m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.6m), with an outer fosse or drain (Wth of top 1.6m; Wth of base 0.7m; ext. D 0.6m) W-N, and a lane is just outside the bank ENE-S-W. There is no visible entrance, and it is probably a rath that has been adapted as a tree-ring.
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: 19 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.