Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortin, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortin
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04188, -7.15242
- SMR number
- CV022-026----
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. 27.1m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank best preserved from N-E-SSW and denuded elsewhere, and a wide, partly waterlogged fosse which is deep from S-WNW and otherwise quite shallow. A modern laneway running NNW-SSE divides the rath into two approximately equal portions. Partly blocked break in bank at N may represent original entrance.
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
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.