Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballyvoyle, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvoyle
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10777, -7.50701
- SMR number
- WA032-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in pasture on a W-facing slope at the mouth of the N-S Dalligan River, with the stream c. 270m to the W and the sea c. 240m to the SW. It is described as a cairn which was destroyed c. 1920 (NMI file). Some clearance material is still evident. Cairn (WA032-022001-) is c. 120m to the W, ringfort (WA032-024----) is c. 150m to the NNE, and ringfort (WA032-026----) is c. 160m to the ESE.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.