Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumgoose, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgoose
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08730, -6.67668
- SMR number
- MO025-013----
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 summit of, and at the centre of, a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. There is a description in the folk record of the destruction of a fort at Drumgoose c. 1900 (IFC (942) 218: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes ). A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and a chord of a field bank (L c. 45m NW-SE) is represented on the 1907 edition, which is still visible on the aerial images (OSI, Bing, Google).
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
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.