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Ringfort - rath

Corgreagh, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Corgreagh, 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
Corgreagh
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.01872, -6.91351
SMR number
MO027-053----

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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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a shoulder that is on the SE-facing spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. An earthwork at this location in Corgreagh is represented on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is an oval overgrown area (dims 34m NNW-SSE; 27.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 6-10m; int. H 0.9-1.4m; ext. H 2.7-3.6m) that is almost reduced to a scarp SSW-NW and NNE-SE, and an outer rounded fosse (at SSE Wth of top 5.2m; ext. D 1m) ESE-SW that is largely reduced to a berm (at NNW: Wth 4m) elsewhere. An outer, flat-topped bank (at SSE: Wth of base 4.6m; Wth of top 2m; ext. H 0.9m) survives E-S. There is an entrance through the inner bank (Wth of base c. 1.5m) and a causeway (Wth of top 2.8m; H 0.85m) at SE, but the outer bank blocks it.

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

References

McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).

Nearby in the register

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

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