Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gallonnambraher, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallonnambraher
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.86488, -7.16095
- SMR number
- CV039-054----
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. 37m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse identifiable from SE-W-NE, outside of which is a slight counterscarp bank identifiable from NNW-NE and at SW. Modern farm buildings encroach on the site at E and the fosse has been infilled here as a consequence. An earlier report (OPW 1969) suggested that a break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE represented 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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.