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
- 53.98741, -6.79033
- SMR number
- MO030-014----
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
Situated at the SW tip of a low NE-SW spur at the S foot of a drumlin. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 42m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.4-5.2m; int. H 0.4m at SSW to 1.2m at NNE) with some bushes that has been converted into a field bank with external stone facing, and a field wall replaces the bank SW-NW. There is no visible fosse, and there are entrances at ESE (Wth of base 1m) and S (Wth of base 1.1m).
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: 25 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.