Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballingowan, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingowan
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.15162, -7.50340
- SMR number
- WA024-044001-
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 NE-facing slope overlooking the N-S Tay River c. 100m from the stream. Subcircular scrub-covered area (dims. 54m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank best preserved at W (Wth 4m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.55m) but incorporated into an E-W field bank SE-SW. The original entrance could not be identified and there is no visible fosse. A bullaun stone recorded by Power (1952, 148-9) was not located.
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: 9th May, 2011.
References
Power, P. 1952 The placenames of the Decies (second ed.). Cork University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.