Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shancobane, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shancobane
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99862, -6.62854
- SMR number
- MO028-139001-
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 at the crest of the S-facing slope of a drumlin, and known locally as ‘Garland’s Fort’. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 36m N-S; 30.8m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-9m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.5-3m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 1-1,2m; ext. D 0.3-0.9m) from a slight counterscarp bank (Wth 2-3m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m) that survives S-W-NNE. There are gaps in the inner bank at NNE and ESE; the latter (Wth of base 2m) with a causeway is probably the original entrance. The entrance to souterrain (MO028-139002-) is visible NW of the centre. Rath (MO032-001----) is c. 180m to the ESE.
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: 28 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.