Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greaghlatacapple, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greaghlatacapple
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01130, -6.83890
- SMR number
- MO027-099----
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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 on the SW summit of a broad E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 29.6m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.5m), and an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.6-2.6m; ext. D 0.2m) WNW-E-S that has an outer field bank (at NW: Wth 1.4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.6m) outside it SW-N-NE. There is an entrance (Wth of base 1.4m) and causeway (Wth of top 1.9m) at N leading to a gap in the field bank, but there is also an entrance (Wth of base 1.5m) at S where the fosse is not evident.
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: 1 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.