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Excavation - miscellaneous

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, 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
52.24640, -7.19041
SMR number
WA009-043----

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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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