Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kevit Lower, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kevit Lower
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95406, -7.42237
- SMR number
- CV025-060----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised oval area (int. dims. 35.4m N-S; 30.2m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank and traces of a fosse identifiable only from NW-NE. Break in bank at S may represent original entrance. Davies (ITA Survey1942) believed it to be more likely a landscape feature than a rath.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.