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Ringfort - rath

Cruabhaile Uachtarach (Bar. Na Déise laistigh den Drom), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cruabhaile Uachtarach (Bar. Na Déise laistigh den Drom), County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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