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Promontory fort - coastal

Tankardstown, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - coastal, Tankardstown, 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
Tankardstown
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.13698, -7.33665
SMR number
WA025-131----

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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

Identified from an aerial survey by Markus Casey who described this monument as an oval SW-facing sloping headland which is cut off from the mainland by two low earthen banks and an intervening fosse, partly disturbed by a land commission earthen field boundary. From the air the crop-marks of a levelled curving bank or wall with external fosse can be seen enclosing an area inland and N of the fort, suggesting that the headland was once larger and that much of it collapsed into the cove to the NW. A gap in the enclosing elements may be the original entrance and the interior is featureless. A small circular earthen enclosure lies along the cliff c. 70m NW and the adjoining headland W of this enclosure also appears to be a promontory fort (WA025-132----). The area is one of fertile pasture and tillage. Sheer cliffs plummet to the sea below. (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 Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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

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

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