Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynamintra Middle, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamintra Middle
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11310, -7.75403
- SMR number
- WA030-015001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of rock outcrop known as Carrigmurrish that slopes down steeply to the S and W (H c. 15m). An enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a stone-clad earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H 1.5m) has been built around the opening to Ballinamintra cave (WA030-015003-) to prevent animals from falling into it. Although it has been described as a rath (Usher 1885, 362) the enclosure is not an antiquity.
Ussher, R. J. (1885) A description of objects found in the kitchen middens of raths, JRSAI 17, 362-68.
Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.