Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corleck (farney By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corleck (farney By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02316, -6.72592
- SMR number
- MO028-065----
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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 in a low-lying landscape on the lower SE-facing slope of the spine of a NW-SE spur. Small valleys from the NW and N meet just to the SE and the valley extends off to the SE. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. c. 30m) that slopes down to the E. It is defined by an overgrown steep scarp (H 2.8-3.2m), with a bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.3m) W-N across the spur, which may incorporate part of a NE-SW field bank that has largely been removed. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
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.