What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tinnalyra, County Waterford, Ireland. It occupies a D-shaped area 22 metres north-south and 22 metres east-west on a west-facing slope towards the head of a northwest-southeast valley. An earth and stone bank 3 to 3.2 metres wide defines the site, but it is truncated at the north by an east-west road bank and reduced to a 1.2-metre scarp from southwest to northwest downslope. The original entrance cannot be identified, and no visible fosse exists, only a modern field drain outside the bank from northeast to southwest.

Situated towards the head of a NW-SE valley, on a W-facing slope. Overgrown D-shaped area (dims. 22m N-S; 22m E-W) truncated by an E-W road bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) at N, which is defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3-3.2m; int. H 0.5m at S to 1.2m at E; ext. H 1.3m at E to 2.2m at S) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) SW-NW (downslope). The original entrance cannot be identified. There is no visible fosse, only a modern field drain outside the bank NE-SW. 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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