Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rahans (farney By., Donaghmoyne Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahans (farney By., Donaghmoyne Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99753, -6.67030
- SMR number
- MO031-020----
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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 towards the top of the N-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims c. 28m E-W; 25m N-S) that slopes down steeply to the N (H 2m) which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at S: Wth 4.4m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.9m) E-S-W with slight traces of external fosse at SE. The perimeter is largely reduced to an overgrown external scarp (at N: Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 2.2m) on the downslope side W-N-E. An entrance gap at SE might be the original entrance. There is a well outside the perimeter at ESE.
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: 28 July 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.