Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Woodstown (middlethird By., Islandikane Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodstown (middlethird By., Islandikane Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Double bank
- Latest-edition OS map
- Entrenchment
- Coordinates
- 52.13787, -7.27012
- SMR number
- WA025-072----
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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 sea promontory jutting S which is cut off on the landward side by a grass-covered bank (Wth 7.2m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2.2m) and outer fosse (Wth at base 1.6m; ext. D 1.6m) with an external bank (Wth 6.5m; ext. H 1.1m) and slight outer fosse (Wth c. 4m; max. ext. D 0.65m). The entrance through the outer bank and across both fosses is towards the E end. The internal area is small (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 15-24m N-S), but Brown's Island, separated from the promontory by the sea, may once have been part of this fort. (Westropp 1906, 253-4; 1914-16, 209-10)
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.
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.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.