Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96319, -6.79406
- SMR number
- MO030-034----
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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 towards the bottom at the SE end of the spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath is represented on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). It was described in 1967 as a subcircular grass and fern-covered area (dims 27m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) that sloped down to the SE (H 1.6m), which was defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) with some bushes NW-N. The perimeter was reduced to a scarp (at SE: Wth 5m; H 2.2m) N-SE and is incorporated into a field bank and hedge SE-WNW. There was no visible fosse or entrance. The vegetation was cleared mechanically in 2012.
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.