Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Doon (ballyconnell Ed), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon (ballyconnell Ed)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11793, -7.58729
- SMR number
- CV010-012001-
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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
Henry (1987, 23) writing in 1739 recorded a redoubt at Ballyconnell, the location of which has been tentatively identified with that of the Church of Ireland chapel in the village (Davies 1948a, 96). The present church (erected c. 1800) is situated on a mound (diam c. 36.5m) which Davies (ibid.) suggested was artificial. He described it as being quite steep at N and W (H 3.9m) where the ground falls away to a stream. He noted a slight re-entrant at SW and claimed that a fosse was traceable as far as E wall of graveyard. However, his interpretation of the mound as artificial is questionable as there are a number of natural mounds of similar appearance in the immediate locality.
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
References
Davies, O. 1948 The castles of county Cavan, Part 2. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 80-126.
Henry, W. 1987 Upper Lough Erne in 1739. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Exhibitionist figure (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.