Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumsillagh (upper Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsillagh (upper Loughtee By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05227, -7.38925
- SMR number
- CV015-042----
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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
Raised oval area (int. dims. 33.5m WNW-ESE; 28m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial, although partly denuded, earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse modified and incorporated into the field drainage system. An earlier report (OPW 1968) suggested that the original entrance was probably at SE. Densely overgrown with vegetation.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.