
What is recorded here
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) with four adjacent mineshafts on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a SE-facing slope c. 800m from the beach at Bunmahon Bay, it is not visible at ground level.
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: 19th May, 2011.
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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