Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Drumavan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumavan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10684, -7.26655
- SMR number
- MO021-003----
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 a low NW-SE spur. It is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a large subcircular grass-covered area (dims 71m NW-SE; 63m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (at NE: Wth 3.1m; H 1.45m) and hedge. An entrance is not identified, and a fosse (Wth c. 1.5m; D c. 0.6m) at N noted in the 1940s was not recorded in 1968 (SMR file). There is a farm track at the base of the scarp S-WNW, and farm buildings encroach on the interior at this side.
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: 21 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.