What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballybrack (decies Without Drum By.), County Waterford, Ireland. The broad-plateau monument has a 30-metre north-south and 29.5-metre east-west grass-covered area, bounded by a 3.2-to-4.0-metre-wide bank rising 1.2-to-1.5-metres internally and 1.4-to-1.6-metres externally. Its west-northwest entrance is 3 metres wide, has no visible fosse, and the bank serves as a northeast field boundary with west-northwest stone-facing traces.

Situated on a broad plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m, N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4m; int. H 1.2-1.5m; ext. H 1.4-1.6m) which is used as a field bank N-E and has traces of external stone-facing W-NW. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at WNW, but there is no visible fosse. 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. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

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