Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Coolum (gaultiere By., Corbally Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolum (gaultiere By., Corbally Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Entrenchment
- Latest-edition OS map
- Entrenchment
- Coordinates
- 52.13456, -7.08094
- SMR number
- WA027-037----
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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
Situated on a triangular grass-covered promontory (int. dims. 63m ENE-WSW; 12m NNW-SSE) jutting SW from the mainland and defended by three earthen banks with two intervening fosses. The defences consist of the inner bank (Wth 9.5m; int. H 1.65m; ext. H 4m) and outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3.7m), a low central bank (Wth 5.9m) and fosse (Wth of base 2.2m), and an outer bank (Wth 7.5m; ext. H 1.8m). Entrances occur towards the centre of the outer bank and at the S end of the inner bank (average Wth 2.7m). Power (1906a, 24-5) describes stone on the inner face of the bank, but this was absent when Westropp (1914-16, 216) described it.
Power, Rev. P. (1906a) The place-names of the Decies, WAJ 9, 12-39, 80-106, 154-
Westropp, T. J. (1914-16) Fortiified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster. PRIA C vol. 32, 188-227.
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: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.