Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Broomhill, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Broomhill
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18424, -6.90682
- SMR number
- WX049-028001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A 60m long west-facing headland slopes steeply down to the shore in an area of 100’ high sheer cliffs. The 19m wide neck of the promontory shows slight evidence of two low (50cms) earthen banks and a 4m wide shallow intervening fosse. A well-defined causeway crosses the enclosing elements in the centre. A fosse and land commission earthen bank running along the cliff edge outside the fort has disturbed the defences. A slight earthen bank runs around the perimeter of the promontory and a circular hut-site 3m in diameter is visible immediately inside the entrance. Several further indistinguishable earthworks are ranged along the northern cliff edge. The area is one of rolling fertile pasture. (Casey 2001)
Date of upload: 20 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.