What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or ringfort in Cnocán An Phaoraigh Íochtarach (bar. Na Déise Lasmuigh Den Drom), County Waterford, Ireland. The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marked it as a circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of about 45 metres. It is situated in pasture on a broad hill, but the Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford records that it is not visible at ground level.
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a broad hill, 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.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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