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Ringfort - rath

Magoney, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Magoney, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Magoney
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.03301, -6.59915
SMR number
MO029-004----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape. This enclosure could be the one depicted at Mageness on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). It is depicted faintly as a D-shaped area defined by what might be an uncertain bank NNW-E-SE on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as an arc of hachures NNW-ENE on the 1907 edition. It was described in 1967 as a curved bank (at NNW: Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 2m) NNW-NE around a raised area with rock outcrop, but a bank emerged (at E: Wth c. 3-5m; ext. H c. 0.5m; int. H c. 0.5m) NE-E. There was no visible fosse and the remainder of the perimeter could not be identified. A house was built just to the W c. 1970.

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

References

McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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