Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rossdreenagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossdreenagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98919, -6.66546
- SMR number
- MO031-056----
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 on the summit of a N-S drumlin ridge. It is depicted as an arc of an earthen bank (Chord c. 20m) at the E edge of an embanked enclosure and described as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is represented as an arc of hachures on the 1907 edition. An overgrown N-S mound (L 14.5m; Wth of base 7.2m; Wth of top 2.5m; H 0.65m at N to 1.1m at E), which is probably the spoil from the monument, remains.
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: 31 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.