Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowhatta, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowhatta
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisleaghan
- Coordinates
- 54.27876, -7.06416
- SMR number
- MO009-003----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a prominent rise and at the SW end of a NE-SW ridge. It is c. 90m E of where a W-E branch of the Blackwater River joins the main N-S section of the stream within the village of Scotstown. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) transformed into a tree-ring and planted with coniferous trees. It is defined by an earthen bank with bushes and an external stone facing, and there area traces of an outer fosse that may have been deepened SSE-W. There are entrance gaps at SSE and SW, the latter, now blocked, has a causeway over the fosse and is probably the original entrance
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: 12 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.