Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Eonish, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eonish
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02243, -7.48108
- SMR number
- CV019-030----
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
Large, slightly raised, roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 70.5m) enclosed by vague traces of a fosse and a much-levelled low earthen bank. Original entrance not recognisable. Not marked on any OS ed. Known locally as 'The Graveyard Field'. A holy well lies c. 30m to NE (CV019-031----).
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.