Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Dunhill, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunhill
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16601, -7.26632
- SMR number
- WA025-028----
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 small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20-25m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in ploughsoil on a steep SE-facing slope of a N-S valley, it is not visible at ground level.
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: 16th May 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.