Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Killerguile, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killerguile
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.25781, -7.42553
- SMR number
- WA007-042001-
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
Situated on a SE-facing slope at the N side of an W-E valley with a W-E stream c. 80m to the S. Overgrown circular platform (diam. 27m NW-SE; H 1m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (at NW: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2m; D 1m) SW-NE and a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. A bullaun stone (WA007-042002-) (dims. 1.2m x 0.45-0.9m; max. T 0.5m) with one basin (diam. 0.4m; D 0.2m) is on the outer edge of the fosse at N. There is no visible entrance.
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.