Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyscanlan, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyscanlan
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.16999, -7.20492
- SMR number
- WA026-023001-
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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
Located on a gentle S-facing slope of a slight N-S spur. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 5m; Wth of top 2m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.4m), with stone-facing evident externally NNW-NE. An entrance (Wth 2.3m) at NE may be original. An outer bank was levelled into the intervening fosse in living memory. There is local tradition of a souterrain (WA026-023002-) in a 'hollow sound' under a farm lane just to the W and the burnt mound (WA026-072----) is c. 20m to the S. The site is planted with coniferous trees.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.