Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cremartin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cremartin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.15702, -6.81550
- SMR number
- MO019-018----
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 spine of the SE-facing slope of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic script as a ‘fort’ and it is depicted as a small copse (diam. c. 25m) on the 1907 edition. There were slight traces of a scarp (Chord c. 21.5m; H 0.5m) at SE in 1968 as the only indication of the monument.
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: 22 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.