Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dian, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dian
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04084, -6.67636
- SMR number
- MO028-042----
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 SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular area (diam. 28m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.6m) N-SE and a complete outer fosse (at SE: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.7m), with a counterscarp bank (at SE: Wth 7m; ext. H 2m) that runs into the natural scope surviving N-SE. It is cut SW of the centre by a NW-SE farm lane, and it is grass-covered NE of this feature and overgrown SW of it
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.