Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cabra, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cabra
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91438, -6.79653
- SMR number
- CV035-012----
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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. 34m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with intermediate wide fosse. A modern drain which runs outside the outer bank from E-SE-S may have replaced an earlier fosse. Intermediate fosse has been infilled and is now utilised as a laneway. Break in inner bank at SE may represent original entrance. The ruins of a small circular building (int. diam. c. 2m), enclosed by a stone wall (max. H c. 2m), with a collapsed doorway at S, lies at the centre of the interior. This was probably a late-18th or early 19th-century folly.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.