Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunmaurice, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmaurice
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13376, -6.86818
- SMR number
- MO019-022----
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
Situated on the summit of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 25.6m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNE: Wth of base 4.2m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m) N-E-S that is reduced to a scarp elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, although there is and earth and stone field bank at the base of the external scarp. The entrance (Wth of base 2m) is at ESE. There is a D-shaped depression (dims 8.5m x 2.2m; D 0.3-0.5m), probably a quarry, inside the bank at SW but a rectangular depression (dims 8.5m N-S; 2.9m E-W; max. D 1.35m) extending N-S through the bank at S with a spur (dims 4.5m x 3.5m) inside the bank on the W side could be a destroyed souterrain although there is no stone present.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.