Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rahans (farney By., Donaghmoyne Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahans (farney By., Donaghmoyne Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99404, -6.66421
- SMR number
- MO031-120----
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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 the SE-facing slope of a long, high NE-SW drumlin ridge, and c. 160m NW of the site of Rahans House, a large farm complex depicted on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map but no longer extant. The feature is depicted as a shapeless copse on the 1834 and as a small circular enclosure on the 1907 editions of the map. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 23m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 3.7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.9m) with some bushes and trees. There is no visible fosse or recognisable entrance. This could be a rath that was adapted as a tree ring.
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.