Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corlattallan,knockakirwan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corlattallan,knockakirwan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.34939, -6.96443
- SMR number
- MO003-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on a low N-S ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. c. 37m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.65m) separated by a fosse (at SW: Wth of top 6.15m; Wth of base 2.6m) from a larger outer bank, which forms the townland boundary with Corlattallan an probably also incorporates a field bank with an outer re-cut drain. The defining features only survive S-W-N and the perimeter cannot be traced N-E-S, but there is a modern house and garden just outside it to the E.
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: 25 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.