Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cormoy Upper, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cormoy Upper
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00341, -6.65890
- SMR number
- MO028-130----
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 rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 25.2m NW-SE; c. 21m NE-SW) that slopes down slightly to the NW. It is defined by a scarp (at SW: Wth 4m; H 2m) with some bushes, but N-ESE the scarp is in improved grass (at NE: Wth 8.4m; H 3.4m). There is no visible fosse or 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: 11 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.