Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Currabaha, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currabaha
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.13435, -7.65375
- SMR number
- WA023-025----
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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
Situated towards the top of a N and NE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 30m NW-SE) covered in dense scrub and defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 0.8-1.3m) with internal stone-facing. An outer fosse (Wth of top 5.7m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.5m) survives NW-N only. The bank is curtailed by a NW-SE road wall at NE, and it is separated by field bank SE-NW from the field to the W. There is no visible entrance. Rath (WA023-024----) is at the top of the hill c. 290m to the SW and earthwork site (WA023-023----) is c. 170m to the NNW.
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: 21st April, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.