Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Taplagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taplagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05459, -6.69897
- SMR number
- MO028-011----
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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 at the SE end of a fairly low NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 33m WNW-ESE: 28.8m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.6m), with slight traces of an outer fosse NNE-ESE. The interior is divided by a NNE-SSW field bank a little W of the centre, and an E-W field bank truncates the perimeter slightly at S. A slight dip in the perimeter at WNW may indicate the location of the 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: 6 December 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.