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Ringfort - rath

Drumcunnion, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Drumcunnion, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumcunnion
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.03166, -6.93134
SMR number
MO026-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the top of the S-facing spine of a drumlin. It is depicted as a D-shaped feature surviving on the S side of an ENE-WSW field bank on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 32m ENE-WSW; c. 20m NNW-SSE) That slopes down steeply to the E (H 1.4m) and W (H 2.6m) of a central rib defined by an earthen bank (at ENE: Wth of base 4m; it. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.6m) ENE-SW that morphs into a steep scarp ((Wth 3.6m; H 2.3m) SW-W but the perimeter is truncated by a WNW-ESE field bank at N and no feature is visible N of this, although a curving field bank (Chord c. 45m N-S) may continue the line of the perimeter at W. There is no visible fosse or entrance.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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