Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltybegs (farney By), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltybegs (farney By)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99053, -6.63899
- SMR number
- MO031-060001-
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 a rise in a relatively low-lying landscape with drumlins to the NE and SW. This is a raised and domed subcircular grass-covered area (diam. 34m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 6.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2m) WNW-N-E and an overgrown scarp (at S: Wth 1.4m; H 2.2m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, although a field wall outside it SE-E creates the impression of one. The entrance (Wth of base 3.3m) is at NNE. According to local information there is a souterrain (MO031-060002-) WNW of the centre.
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: 31 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.