Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killyslavan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killyslavan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.39324, -7.02822
- SMR number
- MO003-047----
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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 at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular earthwork is depicted on the revision of the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map dated 1858, and it is depicted as a curved field bank surviving SE-W-NW on the 1907 edition. There are faint traces of earthen bank and external fosse surrounding a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31.5m E-W; c. 20m N-S). it is truncated by an E-W field bank at N and there is a pole on the bank at SE. Rath (MO003-048----) is c. 30m to the SE.
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
Revised by: Claire Breen
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.