Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Shanakill (upperthird By., Rathgormuck Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanakill (upperthird By., Rathgormuck Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.29246, -7.49294
- SMR number
- WA007-004----
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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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1840 and 1927 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Situated in pasture at the edge of a plateau overlooking the W-E Clodiagh River, which is immediately to the N, it is not visible at ground level.
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: 14 August 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.