Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Headborough, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Headborough
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.07233, -7.89477
- SMR number
- WA034-002----
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
Marked as a fort at Canmucky townland on a 1717 Bateman map (NLI, MSS 6148, 5). but it is not marked on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated in mixed woodland at the edge of a severe S-facing slope overlooking the W-E Owenasack stream, which is c. 160m distant. This is a circular area (diam. 27m) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth 5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m) SW-NE where it is incorporated into a field bank, and it is best preserved (Wth 7m; int. H 2m; ext. H 2.2m) N-NE where an outer round-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6m; D 1.2m) survives. There is no evidence of the perimeter NE-SW, or of the entrance.
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 02 October 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.