Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Cargagh (upper Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cargagh (upper Loughtee By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.93693, -7.25801
- SMR number
- CV026-009002-
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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
Sited on the SW shoulder of a high drumlin hill. Low circular earthen mound (diam. 5m; H 0.5m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with shallow internal fosse. One of six small circular enclosures noted on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. under the collective designation 'Cromwell's Camp' - presumably a barrow cemetery.
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: 12 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 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.