Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynacurra, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacurra
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31463, -7.46974
- SMR number
- WA003-046001-
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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 at the head of the S-N Aughnabrone river valley. Indicated as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 45m N-S; c. 25m E-W) E of a N-S laneway on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is known locally as the site of a 'lios' and barely discernible as a cropmark on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP, S 677-6). D-shaped, grass-covered area (dims. 46m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a slight scarp at the W side of a N-S laneway. The E half of the enclosure cannot be traced. There is local knowledge of a 'hollow sound' on the laneway which may be a souterrain (WA003-046002-).
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 16 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.