Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Annahean, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annahean
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92507, -6.66244
- SMR number
- MO034-019----
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
Situated on a broad drumlin. It is depicted as an embanked enclosure described as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured bank feature surviving S-NW on the 1907 edition of the map. Faint traces of a low grass-covered bank (Wth 5m) are evident S-NW (Chord 29m), but the perimeter cannot be traced elsewhere.
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
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.