Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Annyart, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annyart
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.12878, -6.72287
- SMR number
- MO020-016----
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 highest point towards the W end of an E-W drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ and as a curve in a field bank SE-W on the 1907 edition. It is now situated in a grass and scrub-covered field (dims c. 115m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) but there is no archaeological feature visible at ground level.
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
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.