Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Crossbane, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crossbane
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.85684, -7.00606
- SMR number
- CV040-021003-
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
Situated on the spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge towards the SE end. It is described as a 'fort' and 'Old Burial Ground' in gothic lettering on the on OS 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The NE quadrant of the hilltop enclosure (CV040-021001-) is separated from the remainder of the site by portion of a dividing wall (L c. 33m) comprising a single-row of boulders laid end to end extending from the centre of the enclosure. Davies (1948, 115) records that 'The area thus enclosed, hardly a quarter of the rath, is believed to be a graveyard and the site of a church'. Also within the enclosure is the site of a well (CV040-021002-) which has been infilled (local information).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 August, 2017
References
Davies, O. 1948 The churches of county Cavan. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 78, 73-118.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.