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Ringfort - rath

Ballintra, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballintra, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballintra
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.99418, -6.55698
SMR number
MO032-018----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE spur. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 40m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) that slopes down to the SW, which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NW: Wth 7m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.8m) separated by a berm (at NW: Wth 5.5m) from an outer bank (at NW: Wth 2.6m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.4m) that are best preserved NW-N. However, the inner bank is missing S-NW while the outer bank is missing N-SSE and reduced to a scarp S-NW. There are entrances at SE (Wth of top 3.2m) and W (Wth of top 2m). In the centre there is a scrub-covered cairn (dims 12m NW-SW; 4.7m NE-SW; H 0.5m at NE to 1.7m at SW) of field stones, but it may have provided the location for a mass-rock in penal times (Ó Gallachair 1957, 119).

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

References

Ó Gallachair, P. 1957 Clogher's Altars of the Penal Days. A Survey. Clogher Record 2, 97-130.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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