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Ringfort - rath

Drummanreagh, County Monaghan, Ireland

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Townland
Drummanreagh
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.04765, -6.72302
SMR number
MO028-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking a shelf on a drumlin. This was described in 1967 as a large grass-covered circular area (diam. 51m N-S; 46m E-W) defined by an earthen bank that only survives at NW (Wth 3.6m; int. H 2m; ext. H 2m) and SE separated by a fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6.2m; Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 2.6m; at SW: Wth of top 4.3m; Wth of base 2.6m; int. D 2.3m; ext. D 0.7m) from an outer bank (at NW: Wth 4.6m; ext. H 1.2m). The inner and outer banks were incorporated into a farm lane N-E but the original entrance was not identified. By 1995 farm buildings had been built in the N quadrant (OSAP).

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: 6 December 2017

References

OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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