Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmacomma, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacomma
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.33978, -7.73897
- SMR number
- WA001-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. Overgrown subcircular area (dims. 34m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3m at W to 1.3m at S (upslope); ext. H 1.2-1.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth at base 2m; D 0.5-1.3m). The bank is reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m) WNW-N-NE. An external bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6-1m at N) SSW-NE is incorporated into a field wall elsewhere. The entrance is not identified.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.