Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Banagher, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banagher
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94491, -7.28995
- SMR number
- CV026-004003-
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
A component of the aforementioned complex of ritual sites (CV026-004004-, CV026-004001-, CV026-004006-, CV026-004002-, CV026-004005-). Large stone circle (int. dims. 40m E-W x 35m N-S) comprising twelve stones, five now upright measuring between 0.65m and 1.3m high, and the others prostrate. Within the circle is a ruined chambered cairn which housed a possible passage tomb (11) (Ó Nualláin 1989, 127).
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
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 8/1972).
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.