County: Waterford Site name: DUNMORE EAST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 27:35 Licence number: 01E0344
Author: Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: Promontory Fort - coastal
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 668935m, N 600455m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.151634, -6.992653
The promontory fort at Dunmore East, to the south-west of Dunmore East village, is known as ‘Shanooan’. Westropp’s 1914 survey indicated a defensive bank and fosse and internal features including a linear earthwork and a hut site. The site has undergone developmental works since the 1960s, including the removal of the defensive bank, hut site and c. 35m of the north side of the promontory.
The site was initially tested in April 2001 and the results of this merited further excavation in June and monitoring in October 2001. The results of the excavation in June indicated that the site was totally disturbed and that the modern surface was created in parts over previously disturbed ground. No material of archaeological origin was uncovered. Monitoring in October did not uncover any archaeological material.
