Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumnagrella, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumnagrella
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99449, -6.58043
- SMR number
- MO032-014----
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 E-W ridge in an undulating low-lying landscape. It is an oval grass-covered area (dims 37.5m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth of base 3.2-3.8m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-0.9m) with some bushes, which is incorporated into a field bank W-NE. There is no visible fosse. There is a gap at WNW but the original entrance is probably that at SE (Wth of base 1.6m). It had been removed by 1984 (SMR file).
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: 28 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.