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Promontory fort - coastal

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - coastal, Cruabhaile Íochtarach (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 Íochtarach (Bar. Na Déise laistigh den Drom)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.97568, -7.66438
SMR number
WA038-067----

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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

Identified from an aerial survey by Markus Casey who described this possible monument as a broad S-facing headland which shows signs of two possible wide collapsed stone walls and intervening fosse running partly across its neck. A bank runs along the cliff edge and the headland is ridge-backed with gorse and outcropping rock. The area is one of mixed pasture with unimproved land along the coast. Grassy 50’ high cliffs slope down to the rocky shore. (Casey 2001)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 November 2021

References

Casey, M. 2001 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Nearby in the register

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

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