Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Donaghmoyne, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghmoyne
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00726, -6.69599
- SMR number
- MO028-119----
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 the spine of a NW-SE ridge, and within Castle Mannan Golf course. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims 29.2m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) planted in beech trees which is defined by a grass-covered but eroded earthen bank (at NW: Wth 12m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.2m) W-N-SE, and by a scarp (at SE: Wth 5m; H 1.6m) elsewhere. The bank is separated by an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 5.4m; D 0.9m) W-N from an outer field bank (at NW: Wth 3.2m; ext. H 0.4m) that surrounds the whole monument but is reduced to a scarp for much of its course. There is an entrance gap (Wth of base 1.8m) at SW.
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: 11 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.