Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnadarragh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnadarragh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01908, -6.89498
- SMR number
- MO027-058----
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
Located on a S-N spur on a N-facing slope down to Lough Dermot, the S end of which is c. 130m to the N, with a severe slope down immediately to the E. This is a subcircular overgrown area (dims 24m N-S; 21.5m WNW-ESE) defined by an earth and stone bank (at WNW: Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) that is reduced to a scarp (Wth 10m; H 4m) NE-SE, which might be largely natural. There is no visible fosse and the entrance is a wide gap (Wth of base 2.7m) at S, on the natural approach to the monument. It is cut by a N-S field bank towards the perimeter at W.
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: 31 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.