Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carn (castlerahan By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn (castlerahan By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85719, -7.18913
- SMR number
- CV038-005----
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
Marked 'Can' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Circular area (int. diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a low earthen bank, skirted by a modern drain from SW-W-NW. Original entrance not recognisable. Internal area slopes steeply from E-W.
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
- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.