Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - 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
- 52.10715, -7.50454
- SMR number
- WA032-026----
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
Situated in pasture on a hilltop overlooking the mouth of the N-S Dalligan River, c. 400m to the W and the sea c. 300m to the SW. A trapezoidal field (dims. c. 80m NE-SW; c. 50-120m NW-SE) was known locally in the 1930s as ‘the Old Fort’ (NMI file). Nothing is visible at ground level. Cairn (WA032-023----) is c. 160m to the WNW.
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: 27th September 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.