Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shanco (farney By., Magheross Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanco (farney By., Magheross Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00318, -6.83733
- SMR number
- MO027-100----
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 towards the top of a S-facing slope. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and an arc of hachures W-N-E connecting with a NE-SW field bank at SE is depicted on the 1907 edition. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.5m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (at N: Wth 3.4m; H 0.5m) that is incorporated into a field bank E-SE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original 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.
Date of revision: 1 February 2018
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.