Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derries Lower, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derries Lower
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00353, -7.49581
- SMR number
- CV019-015----
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
Raised circular area (int. dims. 44m NW-SE; 43.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a narrow, deep fosse which has been modified and utilised as a field drain. Original entrance was probably at SE where the bank barely rises above the enclosed area. Modern roadway runs N-S through the site dividing it into two roughly equal portions.
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
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.