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Fulacht fia

Knockhouse Lower, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Knockhouse Lower, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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