Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corcreeghagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corcreeghagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99470, -6.87272
- SMR number
- MO030-002----
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 at the crest of the N-facing slope of a drumlin. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as a hachured D-shaped feature N of an E-W field bank on the 1907 edition. This is an overgrown D-shaped area (dims c. 22m E-W; c. 10m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.95m) W-N-E, which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) at NE. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The monument is truncated by an E-W field bank at S, and cannot be traced visibly S of this feature. Ringfort (MO030-001----) is c. 180m to the WSW.
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: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.