Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolcair, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcair
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03379, -6.67776
- SMR number
- MO028-043----
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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 N end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on the NW side of a NNE-SSW road on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), and it is shown with dotted lines on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map on the same side of the road. By the time the 1907 edition was made the road looped around it just to the W as it does now. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by a scarp E-S-W (at S: Wth 5.4m; H 1.3m) that melds into the slope elsewhere. It is visible on the OSI aerial images 2005 (OSAP). Rath (MO028-046----) is c. 200m to the SE.
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
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.