Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cornecassa Demesne, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornecassa Demesne
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24731, -6.99596
- SMR number
- MO009-066----
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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 top of a hill, in Smith’s Wood. This is a wooded circular area (diam. c. 38m) defined by an earthen bank (max. Wth c. 2m; int. H c. 0.1m; ext. H c. 1.1m) and an outer fosse or drain (Wth. c. 0.9m). There are entrances at E (Wth 1m), W (Wth 1m) and S (Wth 1m). A N-S earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.5m) runs through centre. It may be a landscape feature associated with the demesne.
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.