Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Billis, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Billis
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.29632, -6.93730
- SMR number
- MO006-016----
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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 on the S-facing slope W of a small NE-SW drumlin ridge. A circular earthwork is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) at Billis. A subrectangular field (dims c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by curving field banks on all sides except NW-NE is depicted on the 1907 edition. These field banks are still extant.
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: 29 August 2017
References
McCrea, W. 1793 A map of the county of Monaghan. National Library of Ireland, Manuscripts 16.1.10 (1-4).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.