Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Peast, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Peast
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02058, -6.77606
- SMR number
- MO027-089----
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 SE end of a slight NW-SE ridge that is on a NE-facing slope overlooking a small dry closed valley. A small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) with a farm lane curving around it NE-S and farm buildings just to the W is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is represented as a D-shaped enclosure with straight sides at W and N on the 1907 edition. This is a subcircular area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by field banks, and is used as a haggard.
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: 1 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.