What is recorded here
Located at the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath, or rath (MO025-009----) which is c. 170m to the ESE, is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 47.6m NE-SW; 39.6m NW-SE) that slopes down to the SE (H 1.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4.2-4.6m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 1.5m at NW to 2.2m at SE) which is incorporated in a field bank SW-N, and a complete outer fosse or drain (Wth of base 1-1.3m; D 0.3m). There is a widened entrance (Wth of base 4.1m) and causeway (Wth of top 6m; H 0.35m) at SE. The perimeter is truncated slightly be a NW-SE field bank at NE.
Located at the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath, or rath (MO025-009----) which is c. 170m to the ESE, is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 47.6m NE-SW; 39.6m NW-SE) that slopes down to the SE (H 1.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4.2-4.6m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 1.5m at NW to…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO025-008
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