Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Swellan Upper, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Swellan Upper
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Swellan Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.99577, -7.37423
- SMR number
- CV020-072----
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
Large oval area (int. dims. 49m N-S; 42.5m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank with an external fosse and low counterscarp bank best preserved from NW-N-NE. A level area (Wth 2.4m) lies outside of this again and is encircled by a third bank which is planted with trees and may be a later landscape feature. It is accompanied by an external fosse. The counterscarp bank is best preserved from NW-N-NE. Corresponding breaks in all three banks at S may represent original entrance, although there are no accompanying causeways.
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
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.