Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Seeola, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seeola
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01183, -6.58390
- SMR number
- MO029-023----
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 on the summit of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as an arc of hachures on the N side of a WNW-ESE field bank only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It survives as an overgrown platform (dims 19m E-W; c. 6m N-S) defined by a scarp (at NW: H 1.3m; at N: H 3m; at NE: H 0.8m) with no visible fosse N of the field bank. South of the field ban the scarp merges into the natural slope, although no clear limits can be identified here in ploughed ground.
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: 29 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.