Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greaghlone, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greaghlone
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96723, -6.84281
- SMR number
- MO030-029----
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 on a low NW-SE rise in a fairly low-lying position between drumlins, but overlooking Greaghlone or Beagh Lough, the E shore of which is c. 225m to the W. 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 SE-W on the 1907 edition. The perimeter could be incorporated into a field bank and hedge SE-W (Chord 31m), which is built on a scarp (at SW: H 1.65m).
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.