Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Laragh (farney By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laragh (farney By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01285, -6.73155
- SMR number
- MO028-104----
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 SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 26.4m NNW-SSE; 26.4m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NNW: Wth of bank 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) with some bushes , and an outer fosse (at ENE: Wth of top 2.4m; Wth of base 1.7m; int. D 2.3m; ext. D 0.4m) N-SE. There is an entrance gap at SE that has been widened (Wth of base 3.4m) but which is probably original. A NNW-SSE field bank that was just to the W has been removed since 1995 (OSAP).
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
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.