Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rath Lower, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath Lower
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15221, -7.92369
- SMR number
- WA021-010002-
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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 faintly as a 'Danish fort' on a Scalé map of 1773 (NLI: ms. 7217, 27), it is marked as a killeen only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a SW-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 20 October 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.