Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghinillard, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghinillard
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97032, -6.80347
- SMR number
- MO030-032001-
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 a small NW-SE ridge, which is on the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 52m NW-SE; 45m NE-SW) planted with coniferous trees, which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base c. 5m; Wth of top c. 2m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H c. 3m), with slight traces of an external fosse (at WSW: Wth c. 4m; ext. D 0.2m) SW-N. There is an entrance (Wth of base 1.5m) at WNW. There is local knowledge of a souterrain in the bank at NNE, which is said to have had a lintelled entrance, but it is no longer evident. A NE-SW field bank cuts the monument towards the perimeter at SE.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.