Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmurry, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmurry
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04568, -6.64059
- SMR number
- MO028-022----
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 on the crest of a NW-SE drumlin ridge and overlooking a NNW-SSE section of the River Fane which is c. 100m to the E. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a small irregular field on the 1907 edition. This is an oval overgrown area (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth c. 5m; H c. 1m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
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: 6 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.