Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tonyscallan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonyscallan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.13261, -6.83831
- SMR number
- MO019-026----
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 towards the top of the E-facing slope of drumlin overlooking Tonyscallan or Dernaglug Lough to the SE. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area sloping down to the SE which is defined by a large earthen bank (at NNE: Wth of base 4.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.6m) and an outer fosse that has probably been re-cut W-N, but the perimeter is largely reduced to a scarp, stone-faced in places, elsewhere. There is an entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) at WNW. A depression (L 16m; Wth 3.4m; D 1.3m) inside the bank at SW is probably a quarry with spoil on its inner edge.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.