TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Enclosure

Corrinenty, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Corrinenty, 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
Corrinenty
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.02653, -6.82520
SMR number
MO027-077----

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 at the SE end of a low rise with rock outcrop. It is in a low-lying landscape with a small SE-NW stream that runs into Shantonagh Lough c. 2km to the NW just 25m to the E. This is a subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 15.3m N-S at W to 19.8m N-S at E; 12.6m E-W) defined by earthen banks (at N: Wth 1.6m; H c. 0.1-0.3m) with a small rectangular platform (dims c. 6m N-S; 4.5m E-W) projecting E at the S end of the E bank, probably the result of the ancient levelling of the bank here. The bank at S (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) was incorporated in a field bank that extended W to meet a WNW-ESE field bank that is marked on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There is a style entrance (Wth c. 0.7m) at the S end of the W bank consisting of two stones set transversely with an upright stone between them. It is probably a late medieval or post-medieval settlement.

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

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 Enclosure 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