Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Dunmore, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14569, -6.99228
- SMR number
- WA027-035002-
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
Located inside the coastal promontory (WA027-035001-) jutting E into Waterford Harbour. According to Westropp (1914-16, 214) there was a circular hut site (int. diam. c. 3m) and a low enclosure (WA027-035003-) in the interior. The defences were levelled and the topsoil removed in the 1970s to create a carpark. Archaeological testing (01E0344) of the interior (Cleary 2003) produced no related material.
Cleary, R. (2003) Dunmore East. Promontory fort. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 388, No. 1243. Wordwell. Bray.
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/revision: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.