Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullymackilmartin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullymackilmartin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01845, -6.69182
- SMR number
- MO028-082----
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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 just off the summit of a N-S drumlin ridge on the W side. This monument is depicted as a circular feature on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). It is a circular grass and scrub -covered area (diam. 35.2m N-S; 34m E-W) that slopes down to the W (H 2.6m). it is defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 6m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.7m) with some bushes which is incorporated into a field bank E-SW but is reduced to a scarp (at W: Wth 3m; H 1.4m) SW-NW (downslope). There is an entrance (Wth of base 2m) at S, but there is no visible fosse.
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.
Date of revision: 8 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.