Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumod, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumod
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05435, -6.97184
- SMR number
- MO026-001----
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 just off the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 47m N-S; 44m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.7m) NW-N and a scarp (at E: H: 2.1m; at W: H 3m) and hedge elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of base 2.2m; ext. D 1m) NW-E-SE, and there are modernised entrance gaps at SE and 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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 26 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.