Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tober, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tober
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.12885, -8.05154
- SMR number
- WA028-002001-
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
Situated at the N edge of a plateau overlooking the Blackwater river valley to the N with the W-E river c. 1.7km to the N. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 64m E-W; 62m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 2m at N (downslope) to 1.5m at S), with an outer round-bottomed fosse (Wth at base c. 3m; ext. D 0.5-1m) and outer scrub-covered bank (Wth 4m; max. ext. H 0.5m) NW-NE. Tobar Mocuda, which was venerated in May until the late 19th century (OS Name Books), is a pond (diam. 3.5m; D 0.5m) adjacent to the NW, but 'St Carthage's Stone Altar' which is described as a piece of masonry outside the bank at N (ibid.) can no longer be found. A children's burial ground is within the enclosure.
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 July 2011
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.