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Promontory fort - coastal

Woodstown (Middlethird By., Islandikane Par.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - coastal, Woodstown (Middlethird By., Islandikane Par.), County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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