Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolmannan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolmannan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13463, -6.81830
- SMR number
- MO019-029----
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 towards the top of the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 65m N-S) with bushes on the perimeter is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. An E-W farm lane passes through its N interior. It is depicted as a subrectangular field (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) on the 1907 edition. Within this field are faint traces of an arc of a circular enclosure N-E represented by a scarp and drain (Chord c. 30m NW-NE) is overlaid by an ENE-WSW farm track.
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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 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.