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West-Town
Waterford, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1043
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1043 (1043)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Waterford
- Historic county
- Waterford
- Parish, community, or townland
- West-town
- Latitude
- 52.13415
- Longitude
- -7.18485
- Altitude
- 14 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 10
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 10
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.71 ha
- Footprint
- 0.97 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1841); 1st Identified Written Reference (1906); Earthwork Survey (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WA026-041001
- National record
- record WA 026
- Wikidata
- Q31083085
Sources
References
- Moore, M. 1999. Archaeological inventory of County Waterford, 64-8. The stationary Office, Dublin.
- Westropp, T. J. 1906. Notes on certain Promontory Forts in the counties of Waterford and Wexford. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36 (3), 239-25.
- Westropp, T.J. 1914-16 Fortified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster: Part II, from Ardmore to Dunmore, Co. Waterford. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32C, 188-227