Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumgurra, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgurra
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99360, -6.80075
- SMR number
- MO030-012----
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 summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) 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 at the W side of an enclosure on the 1907 edition. It was described in 1967 (SMR file) as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 4.5m; Wth of top 1.6m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.7m) SW-NW and by a slight scarp elsewhere. There was no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The bank has since eroded away (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: 24 July 2017
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.