Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumlongfield, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumlongfield
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13969, -6.86257
- SMR number
- MO019-020----
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 a bluff towards the bottom of the E-facing spine of a WNW-ESE spur, with a small canalised N-S stream just to the E. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic script as a ‘fort’. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 46m N-S; 39.5m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (at S: Wth 4.3m; H 0.75m), with traces of a fosse (at SW: Wth of top 10.7m; int. D. 0.7m; ext. D 0.55m) S-W.
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: 22 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.