Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
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
- 52.25141, -7.17522
- SMR number
- WA009-026----
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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 in area 3 of Knockhouse Lower 1. An oval pit (dims. 1.8m x 1.4m; D 0.35m) was filled with a grey clay with some charcoal while a second pit (diam. 0.6m D. 0.2m) c. 4m to the WNW was sterile. (Clarke 2006a)
Clarke, L. (2006a) Knockhouse Lower 1. Fulacht spread. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 503, No. 1902. Wordwell. Bray. 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. Wordw
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.