Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyvellon, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvellon
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18388, -7.22475
- SMR number
- WA026-002002-
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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
Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described as a 'lios' with eroded ramparts (Power 1896a, 173). Situated on fairly level ground. This is a slightly raised, grass-covered circular area (diam. 32m). The sites of a standing stone (WA026-001----) and an ogham stone (WA026-002001-) are c. 75m to the NW and c. 40m to the SE respectively.
Power, Rev. P. (1896a) On an ogham inscribed pillar stone recently discovered. WAJ 2, 170-5.
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/revision: 27 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.