Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrickaready, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickaready
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16672, -7.37832
- SMR number
- WA024-041----
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 circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a shelf on the E side of the Mahon river valley witht the N-S stream c. 350m to the W, it is visible a a slightly dished, grass-covered circular area (diam. c. 28m). It is also visible as a cropmark on an OSI aerial photograph series (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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 22 December, 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.