What is recorded here

Killyliss holds a broken D-shaped ringfort on a southeast-facing slope, reduced from a thirty-five metre circle to a twenty-seven metre scar where soil and memory collapsed. The northern bank still stands one metre high, marking the line where human hands shaped the earth before forgetting took the rest. A full fort may have stood here, complete and proud, until time erased its southern edge and left only a hint behind the grass.

Located at the crest of a SE-facing slope. This is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is represented as an arc of hachures S-W-N morphing into a curved field bank N-E on the 1907 edition. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims 27m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by a scarp (at NW: Wth 1.8m; H 1.1m) W-N incorporated into a field bank N-E. There is no visible fosse or evidence of the S part of the monument. Rath (MO023-021----) is c. 75m to the WNW. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 19 June 2018

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