Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killarue, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarue
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01666, -6.75924
- SMR number
- MO028-095----
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 SW-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This monument is marked on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), and it is also depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. 35m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Faint traces of a slightly dished and grass-covered circular area (diam. c. 30m) are within a small subrectangular field (dims c. 30-40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE).
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: 8 December 2017
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.