Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cummeen, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeen
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.23256, -7.45239
- SMR number
- WA015-009----
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 bottom of a S-facing slope. Overgrown circular area (diam. 35m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 2.5m; max. int. and ext. H 1m), which is incorporated into a stone-faced field bank NE-S. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but spoil has accumulated outside the bank at S.
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: 9th December 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.