Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Tiravera, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tiravera
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.27963, -6.91224
- SMR number
- MO010-001003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the SE edge of rath (MO010-001001-). Two relict quarry pits might be interpreted as hut-sites where fragments of rotary querns were found in the investigation of the rath conducted in 1927 (Macalister 1928).
Date of revised upload: 26 January 2018
References
Macalister, R. A. S. 1928 Excavation of a ring-fort at Tiravera, Co. Monaghan. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 58, 54-6.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.