Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cavanagarvan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cavanagarvan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.18706, -6.97991
- SMR number
- MO013-027----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the summit of and at the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m ENE-WSW; 26.5m NNW-SSE) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes and an outer fosse, which is bounded by a field bank except E-SE where the bank appears to have been thrown into the fosse. The original entrance (Wth of base 5m), now closed, and causeway (Wth of top 3m; H 0.7m) are at E, although there is another entrance and causeway at NW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 23 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.