Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cruabhaile Uachtarach (bar. Na Déise Laistigh Den Drom), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruabhaile Uachtarach (bar. Na Déise Laistigh Den Drom)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 51.98463, -7.66305
- SMR number
- WA038-022001-
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
Located on a gentle S and E-facing slope, with a N-S stream in its valley c. 170m to the E. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 27m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by an earthen bank S-NNE, best preserved at N (Wth c. 4m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.8m) but reduced to a scarp (H 0.4-1.1m) elsewhere. Traces of a fosse (Wth c. 6m; D 0.2m) survive S-NW and a field bank circumscribes the site NNW-NNE. There is no visible entrance. A souterrain (WA038-022002-) is in the bank at N. The interior is eroded by cattle.
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 October, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.