Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockreagh Lower, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockreagh Lower
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06238, -6.67622
- SMR number
- MO025-038----
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 a SE-facing slope. A circular enclosure is depicted here at Knockreagh Lower on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a raised circular and grass-covered area (diam. 34m NW-SE; 31.5m NE-SW) defined by the slight remains of an earthen bank that is largely reduced to an overgrown scarp (at SSW: H 2.5m), with a field boundary on top of it N-E. The monument is cut slightly by a NE-SW field bank and hedge at SE (L c. 20m). There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified
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: 27 February 2018
References
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.