Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Graigavalla, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigavalla
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.28923, -7.53728
- SMR number
- WA006-011----
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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 on a shelf on the E bank of the SW-NE Clodiagh River with the stream c. 100m to the NW. Oval area (dims. 32m NE-SW; 23m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank best preserved E-W-S (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m), with slight traces of an external fosse E-W. The bank is reduced to an external scarp (at NW: Wth 3m; H 1.7m) W-E. There is a ramp entrance (Wth 2m) at N, and the interior is planted with coniferous trees. The possible ringfort (WA006-012----) is c. 160m to the NE.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.