Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Bawnagarrane, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawnagarrane
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Garrane Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Garrane Fort
- Coordinates
- 51.97304, -7.75379
- SMR number
- WA038-034----
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
Depicted as a small embanked subrectangular enclosure (ext. dims c. 25m E-W; c. 15m N-S) dfescribed as 'Garrane Fort' on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a fragment of a bank (C c. 20m) at SE on the 1927 ed. Situated in pasture on a gentle SE-facing slope, a spoil mound (dims. 10m N-S; 7m E-W; H 2m) occupies the site.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.