Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Knockmahon, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmahon
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13770, -7.35431
- SMR number
- WA025-065----
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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
Located on a triangular, grass-covered coastal promontory jutting SW, that is cut off on the landward side by an eroded earthen bank (L 35m; Wth c. 6m; ext. H 1.2m) and outer fosse (Wth c. 8m; ext. D 0.35m). The interior is small (L 20m) but if two off-shore sea stacks were originally part of the fort, the interior would have been much greater (L c. 90m). There is no visible entrance.
An ogham stone (WA025-065001-) was found in the fosse in the 1980s which has been read (Manning 1989, 9) as: SENAQ MAC (or Q) ...Q (or C) ...NA. A second ogham stone (WA025-065002-) was found in the 1990s and has been read as: FEDILIMEQ MAQI TOQITAQ. The stones are now displayed in a park in Bunmahon (WA025-128001-; WA025-128002-), c. 600m to the WNW.
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: 19th May, 2011.
References
Manning, C. 1989 A promontory fort and ogham stone at Knockmahon, Co. Waterford. Decies, no. 40, 7-11.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.