Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooltrim, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooltrim
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cooltrim fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06320, -6.90915
- SMR number
- MO024-029----
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
Located on top of a drumlin. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 54m E-W; 47.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank largely reduced to an external scarp (at SE: H 1.5m) and an outer fosse, outside of which is a field bank which might incorporate an outer bank of the rath NW-NE (at NE: Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.35m). The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2m) bank and a causeway (Wth of top 5.5m; int. H 0.9m; H 0.5m) are at ESE.
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: 9 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.