Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumgeeny (farney By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgeeny (farney By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92928, -6.63966
- SMR number
- MO034-024----
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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 just off the S end of the summit of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a grass and scrub-covered oval area (diam. 39.5m E-W: 34m N-S; int. diam. 30m N-S) that slopes down steeply to the S (H 3m), which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 7m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.5m) with outer stone-facing and traces of a slight fosse or drain (at N: ext. D 0.3m) W-NNE. The bank is removed NNE-SE and reduced to a scarp (at S: Wth 4m; H 2.4m) SE-W. The original entrance is not identified.
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 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.