Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knockhouse Lower, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockhouse Lower
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24974, -7.17437
- SMR number
- WA009-025----
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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 NE bank of a slight SSE-NNW stream. First identified in centre-line testing (02E0249) by Tara O'Neill of Archaeological Consultancy Services in advance of the Waterford city by-pass (O'Neill 2004a), and fully excavated (03E0415) by Linda Clarke of ACS as a part of Knockhouse Lower 1. A burnt mound spread (dims. 15m N-S; 9m E-W; T 0.06-0.6m) overlay a subrectangular trough (dims. 3.2m NE-SW; 2m NW-SE; D 0.6m) with fragmentary remains of its wood lining. A hearth was c. 10m to the N represented by a thin spread of oxidised clay (diam. 1-1.1m; T 0.03m) and some stake-holes. (Clarke 2006a; Clarke and Ginn 2011b)
Clarke, L. (2006a) Knockhouse Lower 1. Fulacht spread. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 503. Wordwell. Bray.
Clarke, L. and V. Ginn (2011b) Knockhouse Lower 1, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 2, 20-2. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin
O'Neill, T. (2004a) Knockhouse Upper/Knockhouse Lower/Woodstown. (N25 Waterford bypass, Contract 1, site b) in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 492-3. Wordwell. Bray.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 August 2010
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