Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballyeelinan, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyeelinan
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.97778, -7.67899
- SMR number
- WA038-032----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a plateau overlooking the sea c. 300m to the S. Remnants of a scarp (H 1.5m) at SE (C 15m) represent the only surviving element of an enclosure.
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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.