Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Scartlea, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scartlea
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33360, -7.53526
- SMR number
- WA002-018----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Visible as a faint cropmark on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP, S 677-8), and situated on low-lying ground at the bottom of a W-E valley. Dished, grass-covered subcircular area (dims. 30.5m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a widely spread bank (max. Wth 6-8m; H c. 0.2m). The entrance at E is evident as a slight dip in the perimeter.
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: 27th July, 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.