Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilclooney, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilclooney
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.25135, -7.50223
- SMR number
- WA007-033----
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
Marked as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) on the 1840 and the 1927 (ext. diam. c. 35-40m) eds of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a shelf of the Comeragh Mountains overlooking a col between the mountains and Croughaun Hill to the E. Circular heather-covered area (diam. 20m N-S; 19.8m E-W) defined by a stone-walled bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 0.6-1.4m), with traces of a fosse (at E: Wth of top 3.1m; D 0.5m) E-S-N. There are gaps in the perimeter at SE and W, but there is no identifiable entrance. House (WA007-034----) is c. 35m to the S.
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: 01 November 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.