Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Crumlin (farney By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crumlin (farney By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93533, -6.81402
- SMR number
- MO033-001----
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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 on the crest of and towards the bottom of a NW-SE spur. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 35m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 3.8m) largely reduced to a scarp (at S: Wth 6.6m; H 3.8m) and fosse (at S: Wth of top 11m; ext. D 1.6m) with an outer bank best preserved (at S: Wth of base 5m; ext. H 1.6m) S-W-NE and is largely absent elsewhere where it may have been pushed into the fosse. The original entrance (Wth at base 1.4m) and causeway (H 0.6m) is at SE. The interior is bisected by an ENE-WSW field bank and drain.
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 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.