Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Monanagirr, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monanagirr
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02823, -6.68827
- SMR number
- MO028-080----
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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 shelf of rock outcrop in a level, low-lying landscape. This is an oval or D-shaped grass-covered area ( dims 39m NNW-SSE; 24m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at WSW: Wth of base 6m; Wth of top 2.4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.8m) and outer flat-bottomed fosse (at WSW: Wth of top 7.6m Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.3m) S-NNW reduced to a scarp (at N: Wth 2.2m; H 1.2m) elsewhere but backing onto a cliff of rock outcrop (H 4m) at E. There is an entrance gap (Wth of base 2.9m) at NW that is probably modern as it leads to farm buildings, and the perimeter supports some mature deciduous trees.
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
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.