Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Baile Uí Churraoin Theas, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Uí Churraoin Theas
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.00832, -7.58152
- SMR number
- WA039-006----
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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 only on the 1926 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m). Situated in pasture at the crest of the S-facing slope of a NW-SE ravine, with the stream c. 140m to the SW, and sea-cliffs c. 100m to the SE. It is not visible at ground level.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 17th October, 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.