Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Graigueshoneen, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigueshoneen
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19521, -7.43531
- SMR number
- WA015-093----
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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)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavated (00E0196) as Area 26 of the N25 Kilmacthomas re-alignment. It is situated at the N edge of a shallow basin that has a NE-SW stream or drain c. 240m to the SE. A burnt mound (dims. 20m N-S; 15m E-W) extended beyond the road-take to the N and S, but the core mound (dims. 15m N-S; 13m E-W; T 0.1-0.2m) could be identified. The excavated mound overlay eight troughs and stake-holes, some of which forming a double row might indicate a structure surviving to the N and outside the road-take. The troughs were subrectangular (dims. c. 0.8-1.8m), flat-bottomed (D 0.2-0.6m), and straight-sided but usually with one sloping edge. None of the troughs had any form of lining. A C14 determination of 1890-1210 cal. BC was derived from a stake-hole. (Tierney 2002; 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 17th December, 2010.
References
Tierney, J. 2002 Graigueshoneen Fulacht fiadh. In Bennett, I. (ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 336-7, No. 992. Bray. Wordwell.
Tierney, J. 2008 Early to Middle Bronze Age fulacht fia: Area 26, Graigueshoneen td., Licence No. 00E0199. In Johnston, P., Kiely, J. & Tierney, J. 2008 Near the bend in the River, 77-82. NRA Scheme Monographs, No. 3. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.