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Promontory fort - coastal

Templeyvrick, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - coastal, Templeyvrick, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Templeyvrick
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.13430, -7.37454
SMR number
WA024-123----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Identified from an aerial survey by Markus Casey who described the monument as a broad sub-rectangular SE-facing headland (dims. 110m E-W; 65m N-S) defended on the narrow isthmus by a fosse (Wth 8m; D 1m) flanked by low earthen banks. A central causewayed entrance leads to the gently undulating interior. Remains of a perimeter bank and several sheep tracks run through the otherwise featureless garth. Outside the headland some 25m from the enclosing elements and to the W along the cliff edge is a low wide earthen bank running parallel to the cliff, suggesting further defensive features. If this were the case then the narrow neck may have been broader in the past. Erosion continues and the isthmus is almost undermined. The area is one of fertile pasture and tillage, with steep cliffs falling to a sandy shore. (Casey 2001)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 13 December 2016

References

Casey, M. 2001 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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