Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bleantasour, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bleantasour
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20384, -7.66180
- SMR number
- WA013-019----
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 (diam. c. 45m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a circular field (diam. c. 45m) on the 1927 ed. Situated on a knoll of a S-facing slope overlooking the NE-SW Colligan river c. 300m to the SE. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 47m E-W; c. 43m N-S) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank (Wth 2.5-5m; int. H 0.75-1.3m; ext. H 1-1.6m), which is removed NW-NE. 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: 12th November, 2010. Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.