Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Newport West, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newport West
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01955, -7.87587
- SMR number
- WA034-029----
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 faintly as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) truncated by a road wall at NW on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture towards the top of a NW-facing slope, with a N-S stream c. 300m to the W. It is not visible at ground level. Raths (WA034-030----) and (WA034-031----) are c. 90m to the E and SE respectively.
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: 06 October 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.