Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Trinity Island, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trinity Island
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98583, -7.47193
- SMR number
- CV020-076----
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
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. and depicted as a semicircular enclosure extending from SW-N-NE, bordered by a linear field boundary from NE-S-SW. Davies (ITA Survey 1942) described the site as being roughly triangular (dims. 37.8m x 22.6m), enclosed by a low earthen bank and traces of a fosse. Davies also noted that 'two pieces of iron slag were found in the fort'. Trinity Island is now occupied by a huge plantation of coniferous trees. The site was levelled prior to tree planting (local information).
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
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.