Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knockhouse Upper, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockhouse Upper
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26674, -7.17461
- SMR number
- WA009-032002-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 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 sub-triangular pit (dims. 2.2m x 2.6m; D 0.6m) may have been the clay-lined trough of an adjacent small mound of burnt stone (dims. 6m NW-SE; 4m NE-SW; max. T 0.3m), which produced a Carbon 14 date of Cal BC 1020-830 (Russell 2007a, app. 1). It was subsumed into the large fulacht fia (WA009-032001-), the trough of which is c. 12m to the SE. The hearth (WA009-044----) is c. 160m to the SW. (Russell 2006b).
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. Burnt mounds. 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 Unpublished report.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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.