Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyvoony, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvoony
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.13290, -7.44354
- SMR number
- WA024-063----
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. 50m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured semicircular area E-S-W incorporated into field banks at N making a D-shaped enclosure (ext. dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 50m N-S) with the straight side at N on the 1925 ed. Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope, it is visible as an earthen bank (Wth 4-5.3m; int. H 0.7-1m; ext. H 1.2-1.95m) E-S-W, with internal stone-facing ESE-S (C c. 35m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable entrance.
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: 10th May, 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.