Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Annalittin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annalittin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09001, -6.70498
- SMR number
- MO025-010----
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 at the highest point of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 44m NNW-SSE; 34.5m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 2.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.6m) and hedge that is largely reduced to a scarp (at NE: Wth 2.8m; H 1.8m) and hedge. There is no visible fosse but the perimeter is incorporated into a field bank with outer facing stones and an outer drain S-NW. There is a modern entrance at N, but the original entrance is not identified.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.