Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Seafield, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seafield
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.15769, -7.39373
- SMR number
- WA024-054----
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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 slght SW-facing slope. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. c. 26m) defined by a widely spread earthen bank (at W: Wth 7m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.8m) with a flat-bottomed outer fosse (at W: Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.7m). An external bank (at W: Wth 5m; ext. H 0.6m), which is truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank at E, is preserved elsewhere with intermittent traces of an outer fosse (Wth 3.5m). There is no visible entrance. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.