Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Annestown, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annestown
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13939, -7.28196
- SMR number
- WA025-070----
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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 coastal promontory. The defences, recorded in 1914, consist of an inner bank (Wth 6.4m; int. H c. 1.4m; ext. H 4-6.4m) and fosse (L c. 10m; Wth 6.4m; D 2.5m) with a causeway (Westropp 1914-16, 205). It is now inaccessible due to erosion but remnants of both the fosse and bank survive.
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. 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.
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