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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01922, -6.78008
- SMR number
- MO027-090----
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
Located on a shelf on a NE-facing slope. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 6.2m; int. H 1m, ext. H 2.2m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (at SW: Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2.8m; ext. D 1.6m) from an outer flat-topped bank (at SW: Wth of base 7m; Wth of top 4.4m; ext. H 0.6m) S-W, but the inner bank is reduced to a slight feature (at NE: Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-E-S and the outer features do not survive elsewhere. A small house site (ext. dims 5m NW-SE; 4m NE-SW) defined by small earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.7-0.8m) abuts the outside of the outer bank at SW.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.