Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ture, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ture
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.14348, -7.21586
- SMR number
- MO017-030----
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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
Situated at the N summit of a NNE-SSW drumlin ridge. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 39.5m NNE-SSW; c. 33m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank that is reduced to a scarp SSW-NW separated by a wide and water-logged fosse from an outer earthen bank. There is an outer modern drainage ditch SE-W-NE, and the banks are covered in furze. The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.9m) and outer (Wth of base 4m) banks with a causeway (Wth of top 2.6m; H 0.75m) is at NE.
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1987).
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 8 May 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.