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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.39276, -7.02764
- SMR number
- MO003-048----
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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
It is located on the E side of the top of a broad N-S drumlin ridge. A circular earthwork is depicted on the 1858 revision of 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and it is depicted as a curved field bank surviving S-W-NE on the 1907 edition. Faint traces of an earthen bank around a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 25m; ext. diam. c. 42m) are visible. There is a pole just inside the bank at S. The rath (MO003-048----) is c. 30m to the NW.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.