Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Glencairn, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencairn
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.13154, -7.98969
- SMR number
- WA020-020----
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 subrectangular wooded enclosure (dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 50m E-W) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps, and as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W) in a small rectangular field on the 1923 ed. Situated in pasture towards the top of a SE-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level, but it is visible as a cropmark of a bivallate subrectangular enclosure on an OSI series of vertical photographs (2005).
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.