Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Peast, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Peast
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indciated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01555, -6.76609
- SMR number
- MO028-094----
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 hillock. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 26m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by a small earthen bank (Wth 1.4-2.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) with some bushes that is reduced to a scarp (at NE: Wth 3m; H 0.7m) over much of the perimeter. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The monument is overlain by a NW-SE field bank towards the perimeter 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.
Date of revision: 8 December 2017
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.