Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Ahanaglogh, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ahanaglogh
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19257, -7.44564
- SMR number
- WA015-106005-
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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
Excavated (98E0575) as Area 11 of the N25 Kilmacthomas re-alignment. A small area (dims. c. 8m x c. 6m) produced four hearths that post-dated an occupation layer. The hearths (dims. up to c. 1.8m) were dug into or burned into the soil and contained many layers with iron slag, charcoal and baked clay. An arc of stake-holes just to the NW (C c. 3m) may have provided shelter. Among the artefacts recovered were a sherd of 13th century Waterford B ware as well as flint fragments. Charcoal from a hearth produced a determination of cal. AD 1670-1950. The early medieval metal-working site (WA015-106003-) is c. 25m to the WNW. (Tierney and Frazer 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 17th December, 2010.
References
Tierney, J. and Elliot, R. 2008 Early medieval iron-smithing and corn-drying kiln: Area 16, Ahanaglogh td. Licence No. 98E0575. In Johnston, P., Kiely, J. & Tierney, J. 2008 Near the bend in the river, 101-6. NRA Scheme Monographs, No. 3. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Charcoal-making siteunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.