Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumacarrow, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumacarrow
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91103, -7.00887
- SMR number
- CV034-020----
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
Conjoined raths now separated by a laneway which probably overlies a fosse. The NW rath comprises a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 37m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and traces of a fosse. From NNE-SE bank has been modified and incorporated into field boundary. It is accompanied by a modern narrow external trench. From SE-S-W and from NW-N-NNE fosse has been destroyed and replaced by a laneway. Original entrance not recognisable. The SE rath comprises a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a wide, shallow fosse and substantial earthen bank. Original entrance at SE.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.