Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyhamlet, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhamlet
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.07267, -7.96438
- SMR number
- WA028-017----
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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 as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45-55m) on the 1840 and 1927 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on a S-N spur with S-N streams c. 700m to the W and c. 1km to the E. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam c. 40m), barely discernible at ground level, but visible as a cropmark with two banks and fosses (max. ext. diam. c. 60m) on aerial photographs (CUCAP, ALS 95, BGP 33).
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.
Date of upload: 30 July 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.