Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumgorey, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgorey
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.23612, -7.71562
- SMR number
- WA013-002----
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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 SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 36.5m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with stone-facing (Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m), which is incorporated into a field bank N-E and reduced to a scarp (H 1.7m) elsewhere (downslope). There is no visible fosse or 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.