Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintoor, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintoor
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13126, -7.59512
- SMR number
- WA023-028----
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
Situated on a knoll towards the bottom of a S-facing slope of Crohaun HIll. Subcircular area (dims. 36m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank (Wth 2.9-3.1m; int. H 1-1.1m; ext. H 1.3-1.8m) NE-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.3-0.6m) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance or fosse, and it is planted with coniferous trees.
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: 23 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.