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
- 52.24640, -7.19041
- SMR number
- WA009-043----
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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
First identified by Ian Russell (2008, 361) of Archaeological Consultancy Services in centre-line testing (05E0763) of Alternate Route 2a of the Waterford City bypass in testing area 37. Situated on a gentle W-facing slope, it was fully excavated (E3437) by Robert O'Hara of ACS as Woodstown 9 when one pit (dims. 0.9m x 0.6m; D 0.7m) filled with loose silty clay was recorded. (O'Hara 2010b).
O'Hara, A. (2010b) Woodstown 9. Pit. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 526, No 1864. Wordwell. 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: 02 September 2010
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.