Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumbar (upper Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbar (upper Loughtee By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99703, -7.39250
- SMR number
- CV020-025----
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. 35m) enclosed by three earthen banks with intermediate fosses. From NE-SE the outer bank is low and wide and has a modern external trench. It has been faced with stone in recent times. Corresponding breaks in the intermediate and inner banks at SSW with accompanying causeways across the fosses may represent original entrance. An earlier description (OPW 1968) recorded a circular area (diam. 9m) defined by a very narrow, shallow, channel-like depression inside the bank at NNW. Immediately to the S of this a similar although less well-defined feature was identified.
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
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.