What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or ringfort in Ballingarry, County Waterford, Ireland. The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marked a circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of roughly 30 to 35 metres in Kilbarrymeaden, incorporating the townland boundary with Ballingarry from north-east to south-west. The 1999 archaeological inventory recorded it in pasture on a gentle south-facing slope, not visible at ground level where the townland boundary had become a straight west-northwest to east-southeast field bank.

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-35m) in Kilbarrymeaden but incorporating the townland boundary with Ballingarry NE-SW on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a gentle S-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level where the townland boundary is now a straight WNW-ESE field bank. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 19 January 2012.

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