Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rodeen, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rodeen
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not idicated
- Coordinates
- 51.97530, -7.77017
- SMR number
- WA038-033001-
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 an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and described by Power (1952, 84) as a ‘cill’. Situated in pasture on a S-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level.
Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.