Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bocks Lower, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bocks Lower
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04194, -6.80995
- SMR number
- MO027-036----
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 just S of the summit of a drumlin, overlooking Bocks Lough to the W. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 33m N-S: 29.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.6m) with an outer stone facing, and there are traces of an outer fosse (at N: Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.4m). There is an entrance through the bank at ESE (Wth of base 0.9m), but the original entrance is more likely to be that at S (Wth of base 2m).
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: 31 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.