Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corcullionglish, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corcullionglish
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05364, -6.64798
- SMR number
- MO028-021----
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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 NE-facing slope overlooking a NNW-SSE section of the Fane River, which is c. 100m to the E. This rath is depicted as an earthwork on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It had been reduced to an arc of hachures NW-NE on the 1907 edition, by which time a NW-SE section of the Great Northern Railway line, now abandoned, had been constructed immediately to the NE. An arc (Chord c. 40m) of an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; H c. 1.5-2m) and fosse (Wth of top c. 5m; Wth of base c. 2m; D c. 1m) survives W-NE, although obscured with spoil.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.