Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cavan (dundalk Upr By; Dunbin Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cavan (dundalk Upr By; Dunbin Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97079, -6.45034
- SMR number
- LH012-119----
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 gentle E-facing slope. Depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’. It is also faintly visible as a cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature on OSI images (1995).
See the attached view from OSI images (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 19 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.