Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Whitestown, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitestown
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19857, -7.37058
- SMR number
- WA016-131----
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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
Situated in a N-S valley with a N-S stream c. 100m to the E. Archaeological monitoring and testing (06E0163) in advance of laying a water-pipe identified a fulacht fia (Moloney 2006), which was later excavated (06E0281). A small spread of burnt mound material (dims. 1.2m x 0.6m; T 7cm) was associated with a pit (dims. 1.6m x 0.6m; D 0.15m), while a second pit (dims. 4m x 1.48m; D 0.36m) extended beyond the excavation, as probably does most of the burnt mound. The area is cut by a number of post-medieval trenches. (Janes, 2009)
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 23rd December, 2010.
References
Janes, T. 2009 Whitestown: burnt mound; post-medieval. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 537, No. 2024. Dublin. Wordwell.
Moloney, C. 2006 Report on archaeological testing and monitoring at Seafield, Bunmahon, Co. Waterford. Unpublished report. DEHLG (06E0163). Headland Archaeology.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.