Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Ballyvoony, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvoony
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Entrenchment
- Latest-edition OS map
- Entrenchment
- Coordinates
- 52.12850, -7.43291
- SMR number
- WA032-014----
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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
Located on a coastal promontory cut off at the N end by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 11.5m; int. H 3m; ext. H 3.9m) and fosse (Wth of top 14m; Wth of base 5m; ext. D 3.2m), which are separated by a berm (Wth 8.5m) from a low outer bank (Wth 3.7m; ext. H 0.2m; int. H 0.8m). The interior (dims. 42m N-S; c. 10m E-W) is flat. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) through the inner bank with a slight causeway across the fosse. (Westropp 1906, 251-2; 1914-16, 204)
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.
References
Westropp, T.J. 1906 Notes on certain promontory forts in the counties of Waterford and Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36, 239-58.
Westropp, T.J. 1914-16 Fortified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster: Part II, from Ardmore to Dunmore, Co. Waterford. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32C, 188-227.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.