Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghateskin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghateskin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03083, -6.69792
- SMR number
- MO028-076----
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 slight N-S ridge at the bottom of a NE-facing slope. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as an arc of hachures E-S-W on the 1907 edition. This was known locally as a fort and was described in 1967 as a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 38m N-S; 37.3m E-W) defined by an overgrown scarp (at W: Wth 3.2m; H 1.8m) E-S-W that might have been largely natural, but there was no evidence of a bank or fosse W-N-E. It was removed in 1984.
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: 8 December 2017
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.