Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cormoy Lower, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cormoy Lower
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00653, -6.66310
- SMR number
- MO028-128----
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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 on a rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. This rath could be the more westerly of two depicted in this part of Cormoy on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) (see (MO028-129----). This is a grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34m NW-SE; 33.6m NE-SW) defined by a largely overgrown scarp (at NE: Wth 3.7m; H 1.8m; at SW: Wth 5.8m; H 3.4m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. There is a farm track at the base of the scarp S-W and a farm shed impinges on the scarp at NW.
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: 11 December 2017
References
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.