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Fulacht fia

Woodstown (Middlethird By., Killoteran Par.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Woodstown (Middlethird By., Killoteran Par.), 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
Woodstown (Middlethird By., Killoteran Par.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24886, -7.19129
SMR number
WA009-035----

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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

Located on a slight W-facing slope. First identified in centre-line testing (05E0763) in test area 42 by Ian Russell of Archaeological Consultancy Services in preparation for the Alternate Route 2 of the N25 Waterford City bypass (Russell 2008). It was subsequently excavated (E3436) by Anne-Marie Lennon during 2007 as Woodstown 10. An area of burnt stones (diam. 19-22m; max. T 0.3m) overlay three troughs. A rectangular trough (dims. 2.6m x 1.9m; D 0.2m) was cut through by a smaller trough (dims. 1.9m x 1m; D 0.3m) while the third rectangular trough (1.8m x 1.25m; D 0.65m) was c. 5m to the S. There were also a number of pits and stakeholes. (Lennon 2010; O'Hara and Ginn 2011f)

Lennon, A-M. (2010) Woodstown 10. Burnt mound activity. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 526, No. 1865. Wordwell. Dublin.
O’Hara, R. and V. Ginn (2011f) Woodstown 10, 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, 75-7. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin
Russell, I. (2008) Various townlands. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 361, No. 1481. Wordwell. Dublin.

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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