Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Trostan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trostan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97216, -6.68754
- SMR number
- MO031-044----
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 just off the crest of the S-facing slope of a small drumlin. This was described in 1966 as a grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 25m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 4m; Wth of top 1.1m; int. H 1.15m; ext. H 1m) NW-NE that was reduced to an overgrown scarp (at S: H 1.9m) elsewhere. There was no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (MO031-043----) is c. 200m to the N, and rath (MO031-045----) is c. 180m to the NE. It had been removed by 1995 (OSI images). There are farm buildings just to the SE.
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 July 2017
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.