Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumsheil, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsheil
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06970, -7.16827
- SMR number
- CV017-035----
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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
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 eds. Small raised circular area (int. diam 17.5m N-S) enclosed by a low steep-sided earthen bank. At the external foot of the bank is a narrow shallow ditch which appears to be modern. An earlier report (OPW 1969) suggested that the original entrance may have been at SE and recorded a 'slight artifical-looking depression inside the bank at E'. The internal area has been planted with coniferous trees.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.