Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathmore, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02951, -6.72759
- SMR number
- MO028-064----
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 on a col with valleys to the S and E and higher ground to the SE, and SW-N-NE. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 33m WNW-ESE; 31.2m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 5.2m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.5m) and hedge W-N-SSE, which is almost reduced to an external scarp (at SW: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 3m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (at SW: Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.6m) E-SW, and there are entrances at SE (Wth 4.3m) and NW (Wth 4.7m), both of which appear to be modern.
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.