Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumboory, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumboory
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Campbells fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Campbells Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.93922, -6.68181
- SMR number
- MO034-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 the summit of a knoll, it is described as Campbell’s Fort in gothic lettering on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 53m; N-S; 50m E-W; int. diam. 49m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 6.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.2m) and outer fosse (at S: Wth of top 4.6m; ext. D 0.8m) is incorporated into a field bank and hedge E-SSW, and by a scarp (at N: Wth 2m; ext. H 0.8m) with an outer berm (at N: Wth 7m) suggesting the fosse elsewhere. A slight dip in the perimeter at NW may be the entrance.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.