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
- 54.03073, -6.80801
- SMR number
- MO027-078----
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 on a low hillock in a low-lying landscape between drumlins with a small a small stream curving around it c. 110m distant at SE-S to c. 45m W of the monument. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 41.5m WNW-ESE; 40m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 2.3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.6m) with inner facing stones that is incorporated into a field bank S-W and partly quarried at NNW. 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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 31 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.