Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Heilbhic, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Heilbhic
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05294, -7.53899
- SMR number
- WA036-029----
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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
Identified from an aerial survey by Markus Casey who described this possible monument as a headland, Helvick Head, which juts out into the Atlantic S of Dungarvan Harbour. Visible from the air is a field boundary running across the neck of the headland. A second partly levelled field boundary crosses the headland farther E. Also within the gorse, close to the eastern tip of the promontory, there is an overgrown bank or wall running across the highest point of the headland. (Casey 2001)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 November 2021
References
Casey, M. 2001 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrain1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassified1 mi
- Souterrain1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.