Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Comertagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Comertagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97911, -6.84649
- SMR number
- MO030-020----
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 small N-S ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m E-W; 27.6m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.85m) which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge W-N but reduced to a scarp (at ENE: H 1.7m) over much of the perimeter. There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) at S, convenient to a farmyard, which is c. 70m 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 revised upload: 25 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.