Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rantavan, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rantavan
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80789, -6.94430
- SMR number
- CV044-021----
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 a valley floor to the W of a stream. A tower is indicated at Rantauan on Petty's Down Survey (1656-8) barony map, for which see this web-page accessed on 13/04/2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Castlerahan&c=Cavan
Davies recorded 'walls of mortar and rubble' enclosing a rectangular area which he thought unlikely to be ancient (1947a, 99). However, there are now no visible remains of this structure at ground level.
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 revision: 13 April, 2016
References
Davies, O. 1947a The castles of county Cavan. Part 1. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 74-100.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.