Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aughrim More, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughrim More
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02792, -6.63749
- SMR number
- MO028-092----
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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
Located at the summit of a NW-SE ridge. This is a subcircular overgrown area (dims 40m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank (at W: Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.9m; at NE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.65m), with an outer flat-bottomed fosse (at NW: Wth of top 3m; ext. D 1m) and an outer bank (at SW: Wth of base 3.5m; ext. H 1m) ENE-SSW. The original entrance is not identified. The interior is bisected by a NW-SE field bank and field banks extend to the NNE and SW from this.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.