Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyleen, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyleen
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17548, -7.30235
- SMR number
- WA025-005----
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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. 30m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a circular field (diam. c. 40m) on the 1922 ed. Situated on a W-facing slope. A semicircular arc (diam. c. 30m) of a bank, with internal and external stone-revetting, survives E-S-W where it has been incorporated in a field bank.
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.
Date of upload/revision: 30th July, 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.