Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grallagh Upper, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grallagh Upper
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.00498, -7.74357
- SMR number
- WA038-006----
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
Situated towards the top of a gentle N-facing slope and towards the head of a SE-NW valley. It overlooks a bend in the N-S Lickey River c. 500m to the N at a point where it turns W. This is a circular scrub-covered area (diam. 35m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 1.4-2m). There is no visible fosse, or identifiable original entrance, but a modern entrance (Wth 3.1m) has been made at ENE where spoil has been added to the bank.
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: 10th Ocbober, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.