Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corfad (castlerahan By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corfad (castlerahan By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82574, -7.01336
- SMR number
- CV040-008----
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. 25m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank from S-W-ENE. Elsewhere the perimeter has been replaced by modern field boundaries. An earlier report (OPW 1969) noted traces of an external fosse and that the exterior of the bank had been faced with drystone masonry from N-E-ENE. Original entrance may have been at SW. Internal area densely overgrown with vegetation.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.