Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballykilmurry (decies Without Drum By.),cutteen South, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykilmurry (decies Without Drum By.),cutteen South
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19035, -7.54641
- SMR number
- WA014-024001-
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 top of an E-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 48m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5-3m; int. H 1-1.5m; ext. H 1-1.6m) with internal and external stone-facing. This perimeter forms the townland boudnary with Cutteen South SE-W. An entrance (Wth 2m) at W might not be original, and Mongey (1933, 248) described the entrance at the E. There is no visible fosse. The souterrain (WA014-024002-) in the interior is now closed. Three cairns (WA014-024003-, WA014-024004- and WA014-024005-) in the interior are clearance cairns, and two features (WA014-024006- and WA014-024007-) which were once outside the perimeter at E, one circular, the other rectangular, may have been hut-sites (ibid. 248), but do not survive.
Mongey, L. (1933) Ringfort and souterrain at Ballykilmurry, Parish of Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford. JRSAI 63, 248-50.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.