Home / Republic of Ireland / Monaghan / Raferagh
Raferagh
Monaghan, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0969
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0969 (969)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monaghan
- Historic county
- Monaghan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Raferagh
- Latitude
- 53.97964
- Longitude
- -6.85413
- Altitude
- 176 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Footprint
- 0.47 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MO030-018001
- National record
- record MO 030
- Wikidata
- Q31083652
Sources
References
- Brindely, A. 1986. Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan. The Stationary Office, Dublin.