Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnagunnion, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnagunnion
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02019, -6.71516
- SMR number
- MO028-069----
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 NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a raised circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 48m N-S; 44m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 6-7m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 3-3.6m) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7-9m; Wth of base 1-3m; ext. D 1-1.2m). There is an entrance gap (Wth of base 1m) at SSE, which might not be the original entrance. The stumps of an old tree plantation are in the interior.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.