Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cornanure (farney By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornanure (farney By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04037, -6.72294
- SMR number
- MO028-033----
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 shelf on the crest of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge at its S end. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c.25m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic script as a ‘fort’, and as an arc of hachures SE-W-NW on the 1907 edition. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 37.3m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) that slopes down to the SE and is defined by an external scarp (at S: Wth 4m; H 2.5m) E-S-W and a low bank (at NW: Wth 5.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.5m) W-N-E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. It is bisected by an E-W field bank.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.