Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cormoy (farney By.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cormoy (farney By.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00740, -6.73101
- SMR number
- MO028-109----
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
Located on a NW-SE spur overlooking Creevy Lough, a small circular lake (diam. c. 220-227m) c. 160m to the WSW at the nearest point. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 42m N-S; 39m E-W) defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 1m; H 1.2m) with the remnant of an earthen bank (at W: Wth 2.m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.5m) and hedge SW-NW where it borders a N-S section of a private lane. 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: 8 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.