Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Largy Or Forthenry, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Largy Or Forthenry
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05769, -7.18210
- SMR number
- CV016-079----
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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. 28m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, an intermediate narrow, deep, waterlogged fosse and a low counterscarp external bank identifiable only from N-E-SE. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SSW represents original entrance. Situated on the summit of a low drumlin hill which is surrounded by marsh except from WNW-NW-N.
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
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.