Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Benvoy, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Benvoy
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14064, -7.29448
- SMR number
- WA025-130----
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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
Identified from an aerial survey by Markus Casey who described this possible monument as a broad subrectangular headland (L 60m; Wth 50m) which shows slight signs of having been cut off from the mainland by a straight shallow fosse (With 5m) running across the neck. The fosse runs parallel to a later earthen boundary. A slight rise in the level of the base of the fosse towards the eastern edge hints at a causewayed entrance. The area is one of fertile pasture with an unimproved strip of land running along the coast. The headland is partly overgrown with furze and remains of a perimeter bank can be seen intermittently. (Casey 2001)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 November 2021
References
Casey, M. 2001 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.