What is recorded here
Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or ringfort in Knocknagranagh, County Waterford, Ireland. The 1840 Ordnance Survey map marked it as a large circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of about 70 metres from north to south and about 65 metres from east to west. The published county inventory recorded it in pasture on a level landscape but not visible at ground level.
Marked as a large circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m N-S; c. 65m E-W) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a level landscape, 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: 03-09-2009
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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