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Excavation - miscellaneous

Carrickphierish, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Carrickphierish, 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
Carrickphierish
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.26068, -7.15029
SMR number
WA009-030----

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

First identified by Melanie McQuade in centre-line testing (03E1795) on the route of the Carrickphierish Road at the NW edge of Waterford City (McQuade, 2006a), and subsequently excavated (03E1880) by the same excavator. A subrectangular pit (dims. 2.45m NW-SE; 0.7m NE-SW; D 0.1m) was 8m to the S of a second subrectangular pit (dims. 2m x 1.2m; D 0.2m) filled with burnt mound material. (McQuade 2006c)

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. (2006c) Carrickpherish. Pits and a post-hole. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 494, No. 1863. 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.

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