Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Drummond, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drummond
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93487, -6.77529
- SMR number
- MO033-007----
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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 summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge towards the NW end. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘fort’ with field banks approaching it from NE, NW and SW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 12m) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth at base 4.6m; int. H 0.4ml; ext. H 1.5m) with some scrub, but material has been added to the perimeter S-NNW. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The equally small enclosure (MO033-006----) is c. 100m to the WSW while the cropmark enclosure (MO033-008----) is c. 40m to the 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: 28 June 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.