Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Port (esky Ed), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Port (esky Ed)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.29056, -7.94171
- SMR number
- CV001-015001-
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted as an almost oval-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 38m N-S; c. 33m E-W) on OS 1911 ed. Only the outline of the cashel wall described by Lowry- Corry and Richardson (1937, 157-9) is now identifiable. Well-defined entrance at SE. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 137, No. 1)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.