Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonmeenan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmeenan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92135, -6.66854
- SMR number
- MO034-018----
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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 at the crest of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 43m N-S) sloping down slightly to the SE. It is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NW: Wth 5.2m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.2m) SW-N-NNE and by a scarp (at SE: H 1.75m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse and there is an entrance (Wth 1.4m) at NW.
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.