Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clontrain, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clontrain
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93382, -6.75033
- SMR number
- MO034-003----
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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 slight rise. This is a circular grass and rush covered area (int. diam. 33m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.6-6m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.8m at NE to 1.9m at SW), with a fosse surviving E-SSE that widens into a pool S-SW, which may be modern. There is an entrance (Wth 2.5m) and causeway (Wth of top 3m), probably modern, at SW, but a gap (Wth 2.5m) at N is more likely to be original. The perimeter is incorporated into a field bank N-E. Farm sheds abutted the bank at SE in 1967 but a shed was built on the perimeter at S before 1995, and the interior is now scrub-covered.
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: 17 June 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.