Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballycurrane North, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycurrane North
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01694, -7.78358
- SMR number
- WA035-011----
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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 subcircular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35-40m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. A field bank that is slightly curving NNW-NE may respect the outline of an enclosure. Archaeological testing (04E1115) on the site (Kiely 2007a), and immeidatly to the S (04E1460) (Kiely 2007b), produced no related material.
Kiely, J. (2007a) Ballycurrane North. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 419-20, No. 1659. Wordwell. Dublin.
Kiely, J. (2007b) Ballycurrane North. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 420, No. 1660. Wordwell. Dublin.
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/revision: 6th October, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
- Fulacht fia1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.