Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Ardoginna, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardoginna
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.94069, -7.74882
- SMR number
- WA040-027----
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Shown on 5 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
Identified from an aerial survey by Markus Casey, who described this possible monument as consisting of a rectangular S-facing headland, with a slight depression running across the neck and traces of a curving earthen bank or grassed-over stone wall enclosing the promontory and a large C-shaped area to the N. Two parallel banks run across the southerly point of the headland. The area is one of mixed quality pasture and scrub, with a strip of unimproved land along the coast. 75’ high cliffs surround this and nearby headlands. (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 Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.