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
- 54.03260, -6.67497
- SMR number
- MO028-046----
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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
Located at the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on subsequent OS 6-inch maps. It is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 35m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) that slopes down slightly to the SE (H 1.2m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.2-7.8m; int. H 0.8m at SE to 2m at NW; ext. H 2.7-2.8m) with an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6.4m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 1.5m) that declines in magnitude to the SE. There is a wide gap (Wth of base 4.7m) at SE which has been widened but it might be the original entrance. The rath is now overgrown (OSAP 2005)
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.
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.