Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brackly (farney By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackly (farney By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03731, -6.76103
- SMR number
- MO028-025----
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 bottom of a NW-facing slope. This is a circular to subrectangular overgrown area (diam. 41m ENE-WSW; 38m NNW-SSE) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.2m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.5m at E to 1.2m at W), with an outer stone facing S-WSW which morphs into a stone wall on top of the bank WSW-NE. There is no visible fosse but the original entrance (Wth of base 1.6m) is likely to be the one at NE. Rath (MO028-024----) is across the valley c. 120m to the NW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.