Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rahans (farney By., Donaghmoyne Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahans (farney By., Donaghmoyne Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99981, -6.66948
- SMR number
- MO028-125----
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 on a low rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. This is a large circular grass-covered area (diam. 62m NNW-SSE; 57m ENE-WSW) defined by a slight earthen bank and outer fosse re-cut as a drain SSW-W and by a broad bank W-NE which is reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified. The interior is cut by a NE-SE field bank towards the perimeter at S and the monument barely survives S of this feature.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.