Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Portanure, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portanure
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86067, -7.50301
- SMR number
- CV036-011----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Identified by Davies (ITA Survey 1941) on a dry ridge on sandy soil overlooking Lough Gowna to the W. Two 'buttons' were found within the cist and slightly to the S in the same field some bronze implements were discovered. Not visible at ground level.
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
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.