Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolartragh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolartragh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.20367, -6.79958
- SMR number
- MO014-020----
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 the N-facing slope of a small hill that is on an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. This is a D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 32m NE-SW; 29.4m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNW: Wth of base 4.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.3m), with an outer flat-bottomed fosse (at NNW: Wth of base 2.4m; ext. D 1.7m) SW-N. The entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) is at N. The monument is truncated by a NE-SW field bank and outer drain at SE.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 26 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tomb1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.