Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killyliss, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killyliss
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08406, -6.99026
- SMR number
- MO023-022----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 crest of a SE-facing slope. This is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is represented as an arc of hachures S-W-N morphing into a curved field bank N-E on the 1907 edition. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims 27m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by a scarp (at NW: Wth 1.8m; H 1.1m) W-N incorporated into a field bank N-E. There is no visible fosse or evidence of the S part of the monument. Rath (MO023-021----) is c. 75m to the WNW.
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: 19 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.