Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Crossery, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crossery
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.03416, -7.86584
- SMR number
- WA034-020001-
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 at the base of a steep S-facing slope of the NW-SE ridge of Cairnglass Hill, at a point where a N-S spur extends off to the SW of the site and also where a less severe SE-facing slope leads down to the N-S Blackwater River, which is c. 800m to the E. This is a subcircular scrub-covered area (dims. 36m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-5m; int. H 0.2m at S (downslope) to 1.5m at N; ext. H 0.5-1.5m) which is reduced to an external scarp (H 3m) at S, with external stone-facing SW-NE and internal stone-facing SSE-SSW. There is no visible fosse, and the entrance (Wth 2.4m) at SE is now blocked. A souterrain (WA034-020002-) is S of the centre.
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: 27 September 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.