Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumdreeny, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumdreeny
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04576, -6.65323
- SMR number
- MO028-019----
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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 spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This monument is marked as a circular enclosure on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). It is depicted as a large circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) and described as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map but it is not depicted on the 1907 edition. A NW-SE field bank bisects the location, but no archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture.
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
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.