What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or ringfort in Ballyhoo, County Waterford, Ireland. The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marked a circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of about 50 metres, while the 1950-51 edition showed a western to northern quadrant of an enclosure bank about 30 metres across, surviving northwest of a northeast-southwest field bank. The published archaeological inventory recorded the site in pasture on an east-facing slope and stated that it was not visible at ground level during that account.

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a quadrant of an enclosure bank (C c. 30m) W-N surviving NW of a NE-SW field bank on the 1950-51 ed. Situated in pasture on an E-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level. 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: 23 July 2010

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