Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballintra, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintra
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99521, -6.56338
- SMR number
- MO032-017----
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 small rise of rock outcrop (H c. 4m) in a fairly low-lying landscape. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an approximately circular overgrown area of rock outcrop (diam. c. 36-42m) with traces of an earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.3m) on the perimeter at SW. The sides are scarped (H c. 1-2m) and there is a bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m) at the base of the scarp at SW. There is no visible entrance, but quarrying has taken place at SW.
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: 27 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.