Embanked enclosure

Marked as a large oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 90m NW-SE; c. 70m NE-SW), or a bivallate enclosure (int. dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated in pasture on a SE-facing slope. It has been described as a church site known as Cill Choluim Deirg, but a holy well at its W edge had been relcaimed before 1900 (Power 1952, 90). Locally, it is associated with an ‘altar stone’ or a stone with a basin that could be a bullaun stone, but which cannot be found now. Apart from a curving field bank and townland boundary with Craggs W-N-E, which may respect the line of an enclosure, nothing is visible at ground level. It is bisected by an E-W farm lane. Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 September 2011