Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killydrutan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killydrutan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.23147, -6.99449
- SMR number
- MO009-050----
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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 at the N edge of a broad hill. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) that has been removed W-N. This bank is separated by a rounded fosse (at SE: Wth of top 8.6m; ext. D 1-1.3m) from a complete outer bank (Wth of base 9-10m; ext. H 0.5m at NE to 1.5m at SW). The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.8m) and outer (Wth of base 2.5m) banks and a causeway (Wth of top 2.8m; H 0.7m) is at SE. It had been planted in coniferous trees in 1968 but it is now unplanted in a coniferous forest (Bing 2013).
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: 14 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.