Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Hilton Demesne, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hilton Demesne
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.13152, -7.24617
- SMR number
- MO016-017----
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 at the SW summit of a NE-SW drumlin ridge, and on the demesne of Hilton Park. It is depicted as an embanked circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) and described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is on relatively flat ground, overgrown with brambles and a variety of trees, in forestry with golf course immediately to the S. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 21m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.2m at N to 1.6m at W), and an external fosse (Wth of base 1.25m). There is no definite original entrance visible. An E-W field bank impinges on the fosse at S.
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: 8 May 2018
Revised by: Claire Breen / Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.