What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cruabhaile Uachtarach (bar. Na Déise Laistigh Den Drom), County Waterford, Ireland. It occupies a subcircular grass-covered area measuring 27 metres north-south and 21 metres east-west on a gentle south and east-facing slope. An earthen bank runs south through north-northeast, reaching a width of about 4 metres and an external height of 1.8 metres at its best-preserved northern point, while traces of a 6-metre-wide fosse survive to the south and northwest. No visible entrance breaks the circuit.

Located on a gentle S and E-facing slope, with a N-S stream in its valley c. 170m to the E. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 27m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by an earthen bank S-NNE, best preserved at N (Wth c. 4m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.8m) but reduced to a scarp (H 0.4-1.1m) elsewhere. Traces of a fosse (Wth c. 6m; D 0.2m) survive S-NW and a field bank circumscribes the site NNW-NNE. There is no visible entrance. A Man-made underground passage (WA038-022002-) is in the bank at N. The interior is eroded by cattle. 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: 10th October, 2011 Compiled by: Michael Moore

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