Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tomiska, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tomiska
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92696, -6.70067
- SMR number
- MO034-013----
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 37m N-S; 35m E-W) that slopes down to the S defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNW: Wth 8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m; at NE: Wth 6.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.2m) that is only visible SSW-N-SE, and an outer rounded fosse (at NNW: Wth of top 6.8m; ext. D 1m; at NE: Wth 6m; ext. D 1.5m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.7m) but no causeway at NE.
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: 17 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.