Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killyreask, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killyreask
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.38723, -7.00205
- SMR number
- MO003-011----
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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 at the crest of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is an overgrown oval area (dims c. 30m ENE-WSW; 25.8m NNW-SSE) that slopes down to the S defined by an earthen bank and an outer fosse, with a slight outer bank (Wth of base 3.1m; int. H 0.9m ext. H 0.9m) surviving SSE-WSW. The entrance (Wth at base 2.3m) though the inner bank is at SE but the outer bank at this point is complicated with two field banks abutting it. The surrounding field banks had been removed by 1983.
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 July 2007
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.