Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolcanadas, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcanadas
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06089, -7.26008
- SMR number
- CV016-018----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with outer fosses. External fosse is wide and deep from W-NW-N, elsewhere remains are slight. A modern deposit of earth has been piled up against the inner face of the outer bank from ENE-W-N giving the impression of a slight berm between this bank and the inner fosse. Corresponding breaks in banks, with causeway across inner fosse at SSE, represents original entrance. Internal area 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.