Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Trinity Island, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trinity Island
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.99309, -7.47016
- SMR number
- CV020-059----
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
Davies (ITA Survey 1942) recorded 'a circular cairn of small stones 40 ft. across and rising 5 ft. above the marsh; clearly artificial. Much overgrown.' If the site location co-ordinates given by Davies are correct, the site is situated on the E shore of 'Scotch Island' in Lough Oughter, a small island in the marshy bay of the much larger Trinity Island. Not visited.
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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.