Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aughrim Beg, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughrim Beg
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02604, -6.63159
- SMR number
- MO028-093----
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
Located towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown subcircular area (dims 36m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6m) with a fosse obscured by field stones (Wth c. 2m; D 0.3m) and a slight outer bank (Wth c. 2m; ext. H 0.2m) W-NW. The bank is incorporated into a field bank N-SE, but the original entrance is not identified.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.