Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonacullion, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonacullion
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07577, -6.99280
- SMR number
- MO023-024----
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 on the most easterly of three summits of an E-W drumlin ridge, it is known locally as Lismoyle – lios maol, the bald or bare rath. It is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 47.5m E-W; 41m N-S) defined by a scarp (at SW: Wth 2.4m; H 0.8m) that is incorporated into a field bank with a hedge and outer drain NW-ESE. The original entrance is not identified. According to local tradition old graves marked by flat stones were present (IFC Schools' MSS (940) 294-5), for which see this web-page accessed on 29/05/2018: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes
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: 19 June 2018
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.