Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolderry (farney By., Donaghmoyne Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolderry (farney By., Donaghmoyne Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98644, -6.61096
- SMR number
- MO032-005----
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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 level landscape. This fort at Coolderry is marked on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). It is depicted as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and as a small D-shaped feature (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE) backing onto a NE-SW road at SE on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was probably a ringfort, but no archaeological feature is visible at ground level now and it is known locally to have been the site of a mass-rock (Ó Gallachair 1957, 119).
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: 27 July 2017
References
Ó Gallachair, P. 1957 Clogher's Altars of the Penal Days. A Survey. Clogher Record 2, 97-130.
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.