Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killygone, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killygone
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.16549, -7.16733
- SMR number
- MO017-008----
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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 a rise towards the bottom of the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. This rath is probably the feature depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) W of Corkeeran townland, and it is depicted on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is an oval grass-covered area (dims 41m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earthen bank incorporated into a field bank and hedge (ext. H 1.8m at SE) that is reduced to a scarp overlain by a field wall and hedge WNW-NNE. There is no visible fosse, and the outer face of the bank is stone-lined SE-WNW. The original entrance is not identified.
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 8 May 2018
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.