Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Knockhouse Upper, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockhouse Upper
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26085, -7.18062
- SMR number
- WA009-022----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the floodplain of the River Suir. A pit (diam. 0.7-0.75m; D 0.3m) filled with grey silty clay with some charcoal was excavated (03E0344) by Aidan O'Connell of Archaeological Consultancy Services at Knockhouse 4 in advance of the Waterford city by-pass. (O'Connell 2006b)
O'Connell, A. (2006b) Knockhouse Upper 4. Pit. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 506, No. 1909. Wordwell. Bray.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.