Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyvadden, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvadden
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.17381, -7.37065
- SMR number
- WA025-002----
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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 gentle W and NW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 27.5m E-W; 25.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 3m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.6m) with an outer fosse (at N: Wth 0f base 3.9m; D 1.3m) and external bank (at N: Wth 2.6m; ext. H 1.2m). The external bank is incorporated into a field bank SSE-NW. The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is downslope through the inner bank only at WSW. Both banks are overgrown with scrub.
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: 13th May 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.