Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhugh, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhugh
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08038, -7.54424
- SMR number
- CV014-063----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on an undulating shelf towards the bottom of a W-facing slope where the ground slopes down generally to the S and W. This is an oval, grass-covered area (dims 59m NNE-SSW; c. 49m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (H 1m at SW to 1.5m at W) S-W-NNE, with an outer berm (Wth c. 3m; ext. H 0.8m) NNW-N that morphs into a fosse (Wth of top 7.6m; Wth of base 2.5m; int. D 0.6m; ext. H 0.3m) N-NNE, but the perimeter cannot be traced NE-S. There are slight traces of an inner bank represented by a slight scarp (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.1m) about 15m inside the perimeter SW-SW. It is visible on Bing images (c. 2013).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 September, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.