What is recorded here

Killarue holds a faded ringfort on a drumlin slope, marked as a fort since 1793 and still visible as a grassy dish thirty metres wide. It is the kind of place where human hands shaped the earth before forgetting their own names, leaving only a curve for others to wonder about.

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

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