Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Battery
Corporation Lands, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corporation Lands
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Deanery Banks
- Latest-edition OS map
- Deanery Banks
- Coordinates
- 54.10089, -7.43858
- SMR number
- CV011-013001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the crest of an E-facing slope at the E side of Belturbet town, with the ground sloping away to the N and S also. Davies (1948, 100) recorded that this site was constructed by Col. Wolseley in 1689. Bradley and Dunne (OPW 1989, 27) were of the opinion that the site was probably 'originally square with triangular platform bastions set inside each of the four corners'. It is a rectangular area (int. dims c. 30m NNW-SSE; c. 38m ENE-WSW) defined by large earthen ramparts and outer fosses. The WSW side survives complete together with the adjacent part of the bank and fosse at SSE and the bank at NNW. At WSW there is a large earthen rampart with an external fosse. The NNW rampart (Wth of base 7m; Wth of top 3.5m; int. H 2.5m; ext. H c. 3m) has been incorporated into a field boundary. There is a wide break (Wth 4m) in the centre of the WSW rampart with an outer causeway (Wth of top 2.6m; H 0.8-0.9m), and a smaller gap (Wth 0.8m) in the N rampart.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 November, 2014
References
Davies, O. 1948 The castles of county Cavan, Part 2. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 80-126.
Bradley, J. and Dunne, N. 1989 Urban archaeological survey - county Cavan. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.