Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyvoyle, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvoyle
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.12234, -7.51342
- SMR number
- WA032-003----
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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
Located on a gentle S-facing slope of a broad NW-SE ridge. Circular area (diam. 30m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at S: Wth 5.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.7m at S). There is no visible fosse, and the original entrance cannot be identified. Rath (WA032-002----) is c. 30m to the NE on the other side of a NW-SE road.
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: 26th September, 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.