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Ringfort - rath

Aghacloghan, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Aghacloghan, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Aghacloghan
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.02431, -6.76807
SMR number
MO028-057----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 towards the SE end. Two circular enclosures are depicted at Aghacloghan on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and this is the more southerly monument with rath (MO028-056----) is c. 140m to the NW. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 46m NE-SW; 42m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.7m at NW to 1.8m at SE) that is reduced to a low scarp N-E. There is an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6m) S-W-NNE, and an outer bank (at NW: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-N. There is an entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) at SE, and the interior is bisected by a NE-SW field bank (max. ext. diam. 57m NW-SE).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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