Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Ballynacourty (Decies without Drum By., Whitechurch Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty (Decies without Drum By., Whitechurch Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11007, -7.71556
- SMR number
- WA030-085----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a quarry known locally as Quinlan's quarry in the Cappagh valley, and close to the point where the NW-SE Douglas River runs underground. Human remains from this quarry are now in NMI. (SMR file)
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 11 August, 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.