What is recorded here

Indicated is a stone ringfort in County Cavan where a substantial rampart still surrounds a raised circular area, though human hands have partly modernised its base into a field boundary. At its centre lies a cobblestone pad large enough for a haystack or something older, while a sweathouse waits at the south edge to mark the site as a living cache rather than a dead ruin. The fort never appeared on early maps, suggesting it belonged more to memory and local use than to official record.

Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. 23.2m) enclosed by the base of a substantial stone rampart (original Wth 3.9m) which has been partly modernised and incorporated into the field boundary. Richardson (1938, 20) recorded an entrance feature (Wth 0.9m) at S. At the centre of the internal area is a roughly circular area (diam. 4.6m) paved with cobblestones. Richardson (ibid.) suggested that this 'may be the recent foundation for a haystack'. Also Within the internal area at S is a sweathouse (CV004-015002-) 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 upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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