Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolkill West (monaghan By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolkill West (monaghan By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.28027, -7.07412
- SMR number
- MO008-003----
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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 at the crest of the S-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge overlooking a W-E section of the River Blackwater, which is c. 100m to the S. This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 43m E-W; 42.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.5m) with some bushes N-E that is reduced to a scarp (at NE: H c. 1.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse although there are shallow old quarries outside the perimeter at SE and the bank is circumscribed by a farm road W-N. There is a lime-kiln outside the bank at SW and the present entrance (Wth of top 2.5m) is at NE.
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: 30 August 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.