Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullykenny, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullykenny
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23266, -7.05491
- SMR number
- MO009-047----
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
Situated towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge. This was described in 1967 as a raised subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 30m N-S; 25.5m E-W) rising towards the centre (H above field 2.8-3.2m) defined by an overgrown scarp (at N: Wth 1.7m; H 1.5m), with a berm (at N: Wth 5.6m) on top of the scarp SW-N. An original entrance was not identified and there was an old grass-covered quarry hole in the E quadrant. The monument had been removed by 2000 (OSAP).
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: 13 December 2017
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.