Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garranroe Or Cornamucklagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranroe Or Cornamucklagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05022, -6.70052
- SMR number
- MO028-012----
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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 at the SE angle of a small triangular plateau. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40-45m) described as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. At that time it was bisected by a NE-SW field bank and a NW-SE field bank touched the perimeter at NW. On the 1907 edition of the map the NW-SE field bank has been extended across the interior, and the perimeter was only extant on the NE side of the NW-SE field bank. Today the perimeter only survives (Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5m) with an outer drain (Wth 2m; D 0.5m) NE-SE, but the outline can be traced in the other quadrants (diam. c. 40m).
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.
Date of revision: 6 December 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.