Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tiravray, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tiravray
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tiravray fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24163, -6.87351
- SMR number
- MO010-012----
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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 the summit of a N-S drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), and on all editions of the OS 6-inch map. it is a subcircular overgrown area (dims 34m N-S; 28.5 E-W) that slopes down slightly to the E defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 4.5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.6m) that is largely reduced to a scarp (at E: Wth 1.55m; H 1.75m), and traces of a silted fosse. There are entrances at N (Wth of top 2m) and E (Wth of top 4.5m).
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: 26 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.