Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Islandhubbock, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islandhubbock
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10387, -7.49399
- SMR number
- WA032-047----
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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
Identified from an aerial survey by Markus Casey who described this possible monument as one of two large rectangular headlands (see also WA032-046----) at right angles to one another on Ballyvoyle head. This westernmost promontory fort has a faint depression running across the neck of the headland suggesting that it was defended. The area consists of fertile pasture and tillage fields enclosed by stone walls. (Casey 2001)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 November 2021
References
Casey, M. 2001 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.