Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Embanked enclosure
Castletown, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.19099, -7.10832
- SMR number
- WA017-060001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 on an E-facing slope at the S end of a N-S ridge. Subcircular dished area (dims. c. 90m N-S; c. 80m E-W) defined by an earthen bank surviving in its original condition S-W (Wth 13.5m; int. H 2.2m; ext. H 2m). The perimeter is altered into modern field banks W-N-E and is absent E-S. The interior is planted with a cereal crop. (Condit and Gibbons 1988)
Condit, T. and Gibbons, M. (1988) A henge-type monument at Castletown, Co. Waterford, Decies, No. 37, 5-7.
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: 06 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.