TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Promontory fort - coastal

Baile Na Móna Íochtarach, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - coastal, Baile Na Móna Íochtarach, 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
Baile Na Móna Íochtarach
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Entrenchment
Coordinates
51.99702, -7.58333
SMR number
WA039-013----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a coastal promontory jutting E from the mainland. The promonntory is defended at W by a section of rock outcrop (Wth c. 15m; int. H 2.4m; ext. H 2.8m) surmounted by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 4m; H 1m) with an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 12m; Wth of base 2m; D below rock outcrop 2.8m; ext. D 1.8m). There is a causeway (Wth 6-9m; L 9m) N of the rock outcrop and a rock-cut fosse (L 10m; Wth of top 8m; D 1-2m) N of the causeway (total L of fosse 30m). The interior is rectangular in plan (dims. 22m N-S; 20m E-W). (Westropp 1914-16, 202-3)

Westropp, T. J. (1914-16) Fortiified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster. PRIA C vol. 32, 188-227.

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: 17 October 2011

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Promontory fort - coastal in Waterford All County Waterford records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map