Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Banagher, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banagher
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94459, -7.28887
- SMR number
- CV026-004006-
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
An element of the above mentioned complex (CV026-004004-, CV026-004001-, CV026-004003-, CV026-004002-, CV026-004005-). A large circular area (int. diam. 42m) enclosed by a wide, low earthen bank with internal fosse. Fosse now identifiable only at N. Breaks in the bank at NNE, NNW and SSE. Cultivation ridges cross the interior.
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 03/02/2012
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
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.