Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumboat, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumboat
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Morgans fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Morgans Fort
- Coordinates
- 54.03314, -6.57934
- SMR number
- MO029-008001-
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
The following 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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Circular area (28m N-S; 31m E-W) surrounded by remains of earthen bank. No visible trace of fosse. Gaps at E and WNW; latter is possibly original. Souterrain (MO029-008002-) SW of centre.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.