Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumcunnion, County Monaghan, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.