Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Carrickphierish, County Waterford, Ireland
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.