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Excavation - miscellaneous

Gracedieu West, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Gracedieu West, 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
Gracedieu West
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.27422, -7.15872
SMR number
WA009-033001-

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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 a slight N-facing slope. First identified in centre-line testing (02E0441) in field 13 by Tara O'Nell and Deirdre Murphy of Archaeological Consultancy Services in preparation for the N25 Waterford City bypass (O'Neill 2004b, 487), and excavated (03E0590) by Ian Russell as Gracedieu West 4. An area of deposits overlying post-holes, pits and a hearth may represent a structure of uncertain size. Radiocarbon dates of AD 990-1160 and AD 1020-1200 were obtained (Russell 2009, app. 1), although prehsitoric pottery and lithics were also recovered. (Russell 2006c; Russell and Ginn 2011g)

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. (2006c) Gracedieu West 4-8. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 499, No. 1880. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. (2009a) N 25. Waterford bypass. Archaeological investigation. Contract 1. Final report on the archaeological excavation of Gracie Dieu West 4-8. Licence 03E0590. Unpublished report. Archaeological Consultancy Services.
Russell, I. and V. Ginn (2011g) Gracedieu West 4, 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. 2, 25-7. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 May 2011

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