TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - rath

Corracharra, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Corracharra, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Corracharra
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.02645, -6.91800
SMR number
MO027-050----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Located towards the top of the NW-facing slope of the spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 27.5m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.6-6.2m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 2.6-3m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse re-cut as a drain (Wth of base 1-1.4m) in places from an outer overgrown bank (Wth of base 4.2-4.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.3-1.5m) with the remains on an outer stone facing as it was all utilised as a field bank. There is an entrance through the inner bank (Wth of base 2.3m) and a stone-lined causeway (Wth of top 1.7m; H 1.15m) at SE, but there is no gap through the outer bank. A sunken area (L 6m; Wth 2.4m; D 0.6m) extends SE from a break in the bank at NW with a spur (L 6.5m; Wth 2m; D 0.5m) extending N from a point close to its SE end. This is probably a collapsed souterrain, although no stone is present.

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: 30 January 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - rath in Monaghan All County Monaghan records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map