Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tiromedan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tiromedan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.16597, -6.87430
- SMR number
- MO019-002----
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 highest point and towards the NW end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.5m NNW-SSE; 31m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 4.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.7m) and hedge with no visible fosse but the entrance (Wth of base 2.4m) is at ENE. The interior is bisected by a NW-SE field bank and the foundations of a subrectangular house structure (ext. dims 5.7m x 4.7m; int. dims 5m x 4.3m) defined by a low bank (Wth 1.1m; H 0.2m) and with a probable entrance at ENE is visible SW of this field bank.
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: 22 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.