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Fulacht fia

Knockhouse Upper, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Knockhouse Upper, 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 Upper
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.26666, -7.17454
SMR number
WA009-032001-

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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 floodplain of the SW-NE River Suir, which is c. 50m to the NW. First identified in centre-line testing (02E0441) by Tara O'Neill of Archaeological Consultancy Services in advance of the Waterford City by-pass (O'Neill 2004b), and fully excavated (03E0588) by Ian Russell of ACS as Gracedieu West 1. A large area of burnt mound material (dims. 33m WNW-ESE; 13m NNE-SSW; max. T 1m) overlay a wood-lined trough (dims. 2.2m E-W; 1.65m N-S; D 0.6m), which was at the E end of the mound. A plank from the trough produced a C14 date of Cal BC 1060-820 (Russell 2007a, app. 1). Stratigraphically, it post-dated a smaller fulacht fia (WA009-032002-), the trough of which is just 12m to the NW. The hearth (WA009-044----) is c. 160m to the SW.(Russell 2006b, 498; Russell and Ginn 2011c)

O'Neill, T. (2004b) Ballyduff East/Killoteran/Woodstown/Knockhouse Upper/Gracedieu West. Assessment. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 486-7, No. 1781. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. (2006b) Gracedieu West 1. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 498, No. 1878. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. (2007a) N 25. Waterford bypass. Archaeological investigation. Contract 1. Final report of Gracie Dieu West 1. Licence 03E0588. Unpublished report. Archaeological Consultancy Services.
Russell, I. and V. Ginn (2011c) Graciedieu West 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. 1, 77-80. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 May 2011

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