Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Cummeen, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeen
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.22980, -7.45060
- SMR number
- WA015-059001-
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 Danish fort on a map of Lord Cremorne's estate (NLI: ms. 3201, 9), dated 1778-80), and as a rectangular embanked enclosure on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Square scrub-covered area (int. dims. 27m NE-SW; 27m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth 6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.2m), best preserved along NW and SW sides, and an outer flat-bottomed moat (at NW: Wth of top 8.6m; Wth of base 3.6m; ext. D 1.2m). An external bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6m) survives at NW and SW, and a NE-SW stream forms the SE perimeter. There is a record of a rectangular house-site defined by low earthen banks at the centre and of a smaller feature inside the perimeter at SE from 1983 (SMR file), but these cannot be confirmed because of the growth.
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: 19 October 2011.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.