Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dingins, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dingins
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90715, -7.50382
- SMR number
- CV030-015001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 34m) enclosed by two very substantial earthen banks with deep and partly waterlogged outer fosses. Original entrance represented by corresponding breaks in banks with accompanying causeways at SE. An earlier report (OPW 1980) recorded a tradition of a 'tunnel off the fort' which is probably a reference to a souterrain (CV030-015002-).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.