Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyshonock, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshonock
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.23477, -7.33224
- SMR number
- WA016-006----
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 embanked enclosure on the 1840 (ext. diam. c. 45m) and 1926 (ext. dima. c. 40) eds of the OS 6-inch maps, and situated on the E-facing slope of a N-S stream valley with the stream c. 90m to the E. It was removed during the construction of Ballyshonock Reservoir in the early 1970s.
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: 29th July, 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.