Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Stradeen, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stradeen
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96782, -6.63985
- SMR number
- MO031-119001-
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 in a low-lying level landscape. Aerial photographs (CUCAP: AVG 62; AVG 63) from the 1970s show the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature. There is a large pit inside the perimeter at W, which may be a macula, i.e. the site of an uprooted tree, as there are other similar features in the same field. According to local information, an underground passage or souterrain also exists in this area. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture.
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 revised upload: 31 July 2017
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.