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Ringfort - rath

Creevy (Oliver), County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Creevy (Oliver), County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Creevy (Oliver)
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
fort
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.00221, -6.72696
SMR number
MO028-110----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on the crest of a small WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 48.5m NW-SE; 46.8m NE-SW) that slopes down to the NE. It is defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.8m) E-S and W-NNW (at NW: Wth 5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2m) and scarps elsewhere. There are slight traces of an external fosse S-SW and there is a hedge on the perimeter. In the interior there is an ancient NNW-SSE scarp (Wth 1m; H 1m) down to the W located 6-7m inside the perimeter at W with no associated spoil. There are entrance gaps at NW (Wth of base 1.5m) and SE (Wth of base 2.6m), either or neither of which might be original. Rath (MO028-111----) is c. 90m 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: 8 December 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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