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
- 51.94611, -7.76319
- SMR number
- WA040-028----
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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 a broad low-lying W-facing headland which shows evidence of a wide fosse curving around much of the broad neck of the headland. The level of the interior rises gently towards the E, suggesting a possible levelled bank. The entire interior has been planted with beat and is surrounded by steep 25’ high cliffs to sea rocks below. The area is one of flat fertile pasture and tillage. (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 Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.