Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunaree Latin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunaree Latin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04387, -6.75354
- SMR number
- MO028-027----
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
Situated at the SE end of a small NW-SE drumlin ridge, overlooking Lough Nagarnaman, the NW shore of which is c. 200m to the SE. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 24.2m NW-SE) that slopes down to the SE (H c. 1.6m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-4.8m; int. H 0.4m at SE to 0.9m at NW; ext. H 1.3m at NW to 1.6m at SE) with some bushes. There are slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth c. 2m) across the ridge WNW-NNW. The original entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) is at ESE. A water tank had been built immediately to the NW by 1995 (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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.