Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickykelly, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickykelly
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02366, -6.57373
- SMR number
- MO029-015----
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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
Situated on a rise on a gentle S-facing slope. This is an oval or D-shaped and grass-covered platform (dims 34.6m NW-SE; 25.8m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (at SE: Wth 2m; H 0.8m; at NW: Wth 2.6m; H 1.6m) with some bushes on the perimeter ESE-S-NW, which is cut by a NW-SE road bank at NE. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but slight traces of the inner edge of a bank are intermittently visible.
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: 29 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.