Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumganus Upper, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumganus Upper
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06627, -6.69663
- SMR number
- MO025-029----
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 at the S end of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is depicted as an embanked circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) and described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a curve in a field bank SE-W-NW on the 1907 edition. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 35m NW-SE) defined by the curving field bank and hedge SE-W –NW but a low bank (Wth c. 3m; H 0.25m) survives inside the line of the field bank W-N.
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
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.