Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Camaghy, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camaghy
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94809, -6.80023
- SMR number
- MO030-041----
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 just off the crest of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 34.6m N-S; 32m E-W) that slopes down to the SE (H 1.8m), which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank, best preserved W-N (at N: Wth of base 6.8m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H2.1m), but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp at S (H 2.1m). There is a slight outer fosse (at N: Wth 3.4m; ext. D 0.2m) NW-N that morphs into a berm N-NE but is absent elsewhere. The entrance (Wth of base 3.4m) is at SE. The interior has become overgrown since 1967 (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: 25 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 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.