What is recorded here
Fairy fort / ringfort in Ballynabanoge South is a fairy fort or ringfort in Ballynabanoge South, County Waterford, Ireland. The 1925 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marked it as a circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of about 35 metres. The Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford recorded a slightly dished oval mound in pasture on a gentle south-facing slope, reaching 0.6 metres in height.
Marked as circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in pasture on a gentle S-facing slope. Slightly dished oval mound (dims. at top 23.7m E-W; 14.5m N-S; dims. at base 32.5m E-W; 24.5m N-S; max. H 0.6m).
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: 23rd July, 2010.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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