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
- 54.01263, -6.72637
- SMR number
- MO028-105----
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 towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.4m WNW-ESE; c. 30m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at WNW: Wth 7m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.6m) and a slight fosse (at WNW: Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.3m) that survive SE-W-NE. The perimeter is reduced to a grass-covered scarp (at ESE: H c. 4m) NE-SSE (L c. 25m) that merges into the natural slope. The original entrance is not identified but it may have been in the E sector.
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.