Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumgoan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgoan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97101, -6.74468
- SMR number
- MO031-028----
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 top of a NW-SE drumlin ridge towards the NW end. It is depicted as an embanked enclosure described as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 51m N-S; 44m E-W) defined by a small overgrown earthen bank (at SE: Wth 1m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1m) with some stone facing on the exterior. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth of base 1.2m) is at SE. It may have been adapted as a tree-ring as there are some tree stumps in the interior.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.