Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybrack (coshmore And Coshbride By.),ballyroe, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrack (coshmore And Coshbride By.),ballyroe
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.02732, -7.87471
- SMR number
- WA034-028----
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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 circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) incorporating the townland boundary with Ballybrack E-W on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of bank and townland boudnary on the 1927 ed. Situated at the crest of the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge. Only the S part of the site survives as an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 2.2m) with an outer fosse (Wth at base 1.5m; D 1m) inncorporated into a field bank and townalnd boundary SE-NW (int. diam. 28m).
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.
Date of upload: 03 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.