Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumboat, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumboat
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04133, -6.60042
- SMR number
- MO029-001----
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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 the NW-facing slope of the spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass covered area (diam. 32m NW-SE) that slopes down markedly to the NW (H 2.4m). It is defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 8m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.1m) on the uphill side NE-S but it is incorporated into a field bank with external stone facing elsewhere and reduced to a scarp (at NW: H 1.8m) on the downslope. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Most of the perimeter SE-W-NE and much of the interior is now overgrown (Bing 2013).
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 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrain1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.