Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
West-Town, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- West-Town
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Encampment
- Latest-edition OS map
- Great Island
- Coordinates
- 52.13436, -7.18498
- SMR number
- WA026-041002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a feature (dims. c. 25m E-W; c. 15m N-S) inside the bank of promontory fort (WA026-041001-) at W but it could not be identified by Westropp 1906, 256; 1908, 230) and is not extant. (Westropp 1906, 256; 1908, 230; 1914-16, 210-11)
Westropp, T. J. (1906) Notes on certain promontory forts in the counties of Waterford and Wexford. JRSAI, 36, 239-58.
Westropp, T. J. (1908) Promontory forts in the Irrus, County Clare; Part 2. Loop Head and Cross group, JRSAI 36, 221-31.
Westropp, T. J. (1914-16) Fortiified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster. PRIA C vol. 32, 188-227.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.