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Ringfort - rath

Ballykilmurry (Decies without Drum By.),Cutteen South, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballykilmurry, Cutteen South, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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