Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Redhill Demesne, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Redhill Demesne
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.10024, -7.31761
- SMR number
- CV012-005----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Large almost square building (int. dims 16.7m NW-SE; 16.45m NE-SW) built of roughly coursed limestone and rubble, divided internally by a wall running NE-SW. Remains of doorway with bolt-hole in SE wall. Fragments of windows survive in the SW and NE walls. The N wall has been partially reconstructed. Probably of mid-18th-century date.
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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.