Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shancor (clanmahon By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shancor (clanmahon By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91744, -7.38800
- SMR number
- CV031-055----
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
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 33m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with outer fosses. External fosse best preserved at SE and largely infilled elsewhere. From SE-W-NE a modern field boundary surmounts the outer bank. Corresponding breaks in banks with accompanying causeway across inner fosse represents original entrance.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.