Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killakeady, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killakeady
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.35894, -6.94556
- SMR number
- MO003-035----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the crest of the E-facing slope of a NNE-SSW drumlin ridge. This is a subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 42.4m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) that slopes down to the ESE which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank that is reduced to a scarp NE-S, and traces of an external fosse (at SW: Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.4m). There are several gaps in the bank but the original entrance is probably that at ESE (Wth of base 3.5m).
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: 25 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.