Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - ringwork
Dungummin Upper, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dungummin Upper
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80080, -7.22180
- SMR number
- CV042-017001-
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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
Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A rectangular structure aligned NW-SE is shown within the W portion of the enclosed area. The site comprises a large, oval-shaped, natural earthen mound with scarped sides and flattened summit (dims of summit c. 39.5m NE-SW; c. 28m NW-SW). In the SW quadrant there is a low, narrow, stone-built circular tower standing on a larger rounded stone structure which appears to be a folly probably of late 18th or early 19th-century construction. The monument is densely overgrown with vegetation rendering inspection difficult. Davies (1947a, 86) described this as a 14th or 15th-century castle 'of keep and bawn type'. However there is no documentary or archaeological evidence to validate this claim.
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
References
Davies, O. 1947a The castles of county Cavan. Part 1. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 74-100.
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.