Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolaha, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolaha
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96378, -6.65978
- SMR number
- MO031-086----
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 towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a drumlin. It is depicted as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No archaeological feature was visible at ground level in a cereal crop in 1984, but traces of an enclosure defined by two fosse features (ext. diam. c. 45) can be seen on the OSI series of images (1995).
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: 31 July 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.