Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Dunabrattin, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunabrattin
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Entrenchment
- Coordinates
- 52.13471, -7.30796
- SMR number
- WA025-069002-
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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 natural grass-covered promontory located off the W interior of promontory fort (WA025-069001-). It is cut off at the landward side by a V-shaped fosse (L c. 14m; Wth 7m; ext. D 2.7m; int. D 2.3m) with a causeway (Wth 1.4m) and the remains of an inner bank. The interior slopes down to the SW (int. dim. c. 18m NE-SW). A possible souterrain (WA025-069007-) recorded by Tracey (1983) is likely to be a natural fault in the rock. (Westropp 1906)
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
Westropp, T.J. 1906 Notes on certain promontory forts in the counties of Waterford and Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36, 239-58.
Westropp, T.J. 1914-16 Fortified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster: Part II, from Ardmore to Dunmore, Co. Waterford. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32C, 188-227.
Tracey, C.M. 1983 Possible souterrain at Dunbrattin Head. Decies, no. 24, 37-9.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.