Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumhillagh (farney By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumhillagh (farney By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99030, -6.65756
- SMR number
- MO031-057----
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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 a slight NE-SW rise in a low-lying landscape with a SE-NW section of a small stream or drain c. 75m to the SW. This is a raised grass-covered oval are (dims 35.6m NE-SW; 28m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown scarp (at SE: Wth 3.7m; H 2m; at NW: Wth 5.7m; H 2m). There is no visible bank or fosse, but there is a ramp entrance (Wth c. 2m) at NNW that rises tangentially up the scarp and is hardly the original entrance.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.