Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Woodstown (middlethird By., Killoteran Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodstown (middlethird By., Killoteran Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.25247, -7.18224
- SMR number
- WA009-040----
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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
Located on an E-facing slope. Archaeological testing (04E0036) by Linda Hegarty of Headland Archaeology identified an area of burning (dims. 0.8m x 0.6m; T 5cm) over a linear feature that is probably a furrow. Nearby was a pit (0.83m x 0.54m; D 00.14m) with charcoal flecks. Excavated features (WA009-038----) are c. 160m to the NW, and excavated features (WA009-039----) are c. 145m to the WNW. (Hegarty 2007a)
Hegarty, L. (2007b) Woodstown: deposits and pits. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 432, No. 1704. Wordwell. Dublin.
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.