Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghataggart, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghataggart
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.24901, -7.37241
- SMR number
- WA008-011----
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 towards the head of a W-E valley with a NW-SE stream 10m to the SW. Overgrown Circular area (diam. 30m N-S; 28.5m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-4.5m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m). There is no visible entrance or fosse.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.