What is recorded here
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.
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…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV044-021
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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