Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullaghanee, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghanee
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08580, -6.71433
- SMR number
- MO025-009----
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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 towards the top of and on the NE side of the NW-SE spine of a drumlin. This rath, or rath (MO025-008----) which is c. 170m to the WNW, is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and this feature is also depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture, although it can be detected as the cropmark of a large enclosure defined by a bank (diam. c. 50m) and outer fosse feature on the OSi aerial images (1995).
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 27 February 2018
References
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.