Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Coolum (gaultiere By., Corbally Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolum (gaultiere By., Corbally Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13889, -7.05924
- SMR number
- WA027-067----
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 in pasture in a field traditionally called 'An Seana Sraid' (Power 1952, 221). According to local accounts the removal of the S field boundary c. 1970 revealed the remains of an old road and house foundations. Nothing is visible at ground level.
Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.
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
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.