TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Habitation site

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
52.25291, -7.15608
SMR number
WA009-027----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

First identified in testing (03E1975) by Melanie McQuade of Margaret Gowan and Co. in advance of a new road at the NW edge of Waterford city (McQuade 2006a), and subsequently fully excavated (03E1879) by the same excavator. A small deposit (diam. 1.2m; max. T 0.12m) and shallow pit (dims. 0.9m x 0.5m; max. D 0.12m) contained carinated Neolithic pottery. Other post-holes in the vicinity may be contemporary, but not the hut-site (WA009-028----) which is just 1m NE of the deposit. Enclosure (WA009-031----) is c. 100m to the NE. (McQuade, 2006b)

McQuade, M. (2006a) Knockhouse Lower/Carrickpherish/Bawndaw. Potential hearth and pit. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 503, No. 1900. Wordwell. Bray.
McQuade, M. (2006b) Knockhouse Lower. Hut, hearth and series of pits. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 504-05, No.1905. Wordwell. Bray.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Habitation site in Waterford All County Waterford records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map