Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortnavern (millford Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnavern (millford Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.11820, -7.65002
- SMR number
- DG027-027----
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Internal diam. c. 18m. A circular area enclosed by a ruined stone wall. A modern field wall is built on the inside edge of the original wall. The outer edge is still traceable. The original width was at least 2m. Three small 'compartments' have been built in the wall-collapse on the E side. The site is located on heathery bog on a slight rise at the NW extremity of a plateau. There is a stream 30m to the W and better land to the N and W.
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.