Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumhaman, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumhaman
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05644, -6.73143
- SMR number
- MO025-033----
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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 a drumlin. A circular enclosure is depicted at Drumhaman on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), and an embanked circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) is also depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is surrounded by a curving field bank ESE-W and where it is described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering. There is no evidence of an enclosure present now in an area divided between three fields, but the field bank outside it S-W is still extant and the S part of the enclosure can be detected as a grass and scrub-covered and defined by a slight scarp E-S.
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.
Revised 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).
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.