Building

The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating terrain which slopes gently to the N and SE, at the W edge of a broad marshy basin. Within a former manorial centre associated with the preceptory of the Knights Templar (WA017-003001-) (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 330). A rectangular medieval building, or perhaps two buildings (dims. c. 14m NE-SW; c. 4m NW-SE), identified during archaeological excavations (licence no. 18E0613) in advance of a housing development (Pollock 2021, 22-5, 56). Cut into the hillslope forming a shelf which survives in two sections, both filled with silt and concentrations of charcoal and respected by a drain (ibid. 22, 24). Four sherds of 13th-century Waterford-type A pottery and a sherd of Ham Green B (1175-1250) were recovered from the fill of the drain (ibid. 25). Charcoal from the drain provided a C14 date range of 1046-1221, with a 75.8% probability of being towards the later end, 1123-1221 (ibid. 25, 56). Another medieval building (WA017-003010-) is located c. 35m to the SE and Kilbarry church (WA017-003001-) and graveyard (KK017-003002-) lie c. 100m to the SE.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 5 May 2021

References

Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press. Pollock, D. 2021 Final report on archaeological monitoring at Lacken Road, Kilbarry, Waterford, in late 2018/early 2019 and 2020. Licence no. 18E0613. Archaeografix. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service.