Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cargaghdoo, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cargaghdoo
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08021, -6.76860
- SMR number
- MO025-014----
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
Situated towards the N edge of an undulating plateau with rock outcrop and stone field walls. An oval embanked enclosure is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is depicted as an oval field on the 1907 edition. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 51m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall, incorporating an older wall (Wth of base 2.3m; Wth of top 0.9m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m) at NE. 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
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.