Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghmakerr, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghmakerr
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06222, -6.83588
- SMR number
- MO024-032----
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 a rise towards the bottom of a S-facing slope and it overlooks a W-E section of a stream, which is c. 30m to the S. The stream flows from Lough Morne which is c. 250m to the NW. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 32m E-W; 30.5m N-S) defined by a slight bank (at SW: Wth of base 3.2m; Wth of top 0.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.5m) that is largely reduced to a scarp with a stone-facing (at SW: H 1.2m) at its base and an outer drain. The original entrance (Wth of base 1.9m) at ESE is now closed by the stone-facing.
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: 9 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.