Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Comraghs, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Comraghs
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98951, -6.57558
- SMR number
- MO032-016----
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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
Situated at the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge, this rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). It is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 28m E-W; 23.2m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.8-5.8m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m) with some bushes, which is incorporated into a field bank with an outer stone facing NNW-NE, and a complete outer fosse (Wth of top 3.3-5.2m; Wth of base 1.2-2.8m; ext. D 0.2-0.5m). A gap at N is blocked by a tree but the original entrance (Wth of base 1.1m) is at S. A grass-covered depression (L 5.5m NNE-SSW; Wth 1.3-1.5m; max. D 0.7m) inside the bank at NW and another hollow (L 4m) 2m to the SW could represent two collapsed portions of a souterain.
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
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.