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
- 53.97342, -6.68534
- SMR number
- MO031-045----
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 high shelf and at the crest of a S-facing slope. It was described in 1966 as a completely overgrown area defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 4m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 1.15m; ext. H 1.9m) with no visible fosse. It has been removed since then, but it can be seen as a cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature and bisected by an ENE-WSW field bank on the OSI aerial images (1995). Rath (MO031-043----) and rath (MO031-044----) are c. 180m to the NW and SW respectively.
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.