Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumgrone, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgrone
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10935, -7.19772
- SMR number
- MO022-003----
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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 crest of the S-facing slope of a broad summit on a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 38.5m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank separated by a fosse (Wth c. 2-3m; D c. 0.9m) from an outer bank and an external fosse. There is a large gap through the inner (Wth of base 4m) and outer (Wth of base 3.6m) banks at NE, the latter being closed, but if there was a causeway it was cut by a drainage ditch.
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: 20 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.