Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumneill (farney By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumneill (farney By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00861, -6.64340
- SMR number
- MO028-136----
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 a S-facing slope. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ and cut by a NW-SE field bank is depicted at this location on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by an earthen bank and some stone walls. There is no visible fosse or entrance, and the interior is bisected by a NW-SE field wall.
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: 12 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.