Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Tattyboy, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tattyboy
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02213, -6.61806
- SMR number
- MO029-010----
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 on a rise in an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as a curve of a field bank (Chord c. 30m E-W) W-NE that is bisected by a NW-SE field boundary on the 1907 edition. The 1907 map also has a misleading curved feature extending N and E from its E edge. A slight curve in a field wall with bushes and spoil built on top of a scarp survives N-E in a field bank.
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: 28 Monaghan 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.