Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Kilbride South, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbride South
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.18566, -7.16577
- SMR number
- WA026-011----
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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 as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on the 1840 ed. of OS 6-inch map, with a portion of bank (C c. 30m NW-NE) marked on the 1925 ed. Situated in pasture on a gentle SW-facing slope in a slight col with higher ground just to the NE and c. 300m to the SW. It is not visible at ground level.
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.