Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumaliss, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumaliss
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13900, -6.72251
- SMR number
- MO020-009----
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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 a small hillock in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) with trees is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ’fort’. This is a circular area (diam. 30.5m E-W; 30m N-S) planted with deciduous trees which is defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 2.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) that has an outer stone facing N-S-W, but the bank is reduced to a stone-faced scarp elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. This is probably a rath that has been re-used 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: 22 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.