Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killybressal, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killybressal
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.35075, -6.98276
- SMR number
- MO003-040----
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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 on a local rise. The School’s Manuscripts collection lists a fort at Killybressal, for which see this web-page accessed on 23/06/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742068/4732323 It is known locally that a ringfort was destroyed c. 1900 in the ‘fort field’, which is still pointed out at Killybressal, but no archaeological feature is visible at ground level, and the precise location is not known.
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: 19 October 2011
Revised by: Claire Breen
According to local information (Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts 959 377), ringfort stood here formerly.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.