Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ford
Derryvony, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryvony
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bloody Pass
- Coordinates
- 54.15517, -7.41564
- SMR number
- CV011-015----
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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
Marked on all OS eds. An ancient fording point on the River Erne which forms the boundary between counties Cavan and Fermanagh. The name 'Bloody Pass' commemorates an engagement (see CV011-027----) between a small party of Enniskilleners and a detachment of King James' army, c. 31 July 1689, in which the Jacobite force was routed and many drowned while attempting the pass. The dead are said to have been buried in Galloon burial ground (CV011-016----) c. 70m to SE. A modern bridge now spans the River Erne at this location. (Davies 1948, 95; Henry 1987, 25; O'Donovan 1995, no. 1888)
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
References
Davies, O. 1948 The castles of county Cavan, Part 2. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 80-126.
O'Donovan, P.F. 1995 Archaeological inventory of county Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Henry, W. 1987 Upper Lough Erne in 1739. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crannog2 mi
- Crannog2 mi
- Mound2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.