Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Tooa, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooa
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05187, -6.83907
- SMR number
- MO027-008----
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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 S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge and overlooking Shantonagh House, which is c. 450m to the SSE. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map with trees on the perimeter but it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. It is an overgrown mound (diam. c. 15m), and it may have been a landscape feature, although there is no evidence that it was planted with trees.
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: 30 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.