Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cordevlis (cremorne By., Aghamullen Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cordevlis (cremorne By., Aghamullen Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.12174, -6.97657
- SMR number
- MO018-050----
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
Situated on top of a drumlin. This is a subcircular overgrown area (dims 33m WNW-ESE; 29.5m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank that is best preserved S-NW, and an outer flat-bottomed fosse S-W-N that has a field bank on its outer edge SW-N, and a farm lane skirts the monument SE-SW. The ramp entrance (Wth of base 1.9m) is at S.
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 19 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 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.