Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumturk (farney By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumturk (farney By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95053, -6.67855
- SMR number
- MO031-099----
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 a low-lying plateau. It is depicted as a subtriangular embanked enclosure on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is depicted as an oval hachured feature on the 1907 edition. It was recorded in the 1967 as an oval, slightly domed (H 0.8m) grass-covered area (dims c. 49.5m NNW-SSE; 34.3m E-W; ) defined by a scarp (at W: Wth 2m; H 0.7m) and traces of an eroded fosse W-N-E (at E: Wth of top 9m; int. D 0.8m; ext. D 0.1m). The interior and the perimeter at S were disturbed by ancient quarrying. There was no identifiable original entrance. It had been eroded away by 1984
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
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 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.