Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardue, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardue
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10594, -7.52798
- SMR number
- CV010-004----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Raised D-shaped area (int. dims. c. 72m NW-SSE; c. 53m ENE-WSW) enclosed from SE-W-NNE by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse, and elsewhere by Tomkinroad Lough. Traces of a possible counterscarp bank at the external lip of the fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1974) suggested that the original entrance may have been at SSW. Densely overgrown with vegetation.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.