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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Kill St. Lawrence, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Kill St. Lawrence, 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
Kill St. Lawrence
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23127, -7.10381
SMR number
WA017-005004-

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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

Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. An early ecclesiastical site and the parish church of Kill St Lawrence (WA017-005001-) is within a rectangular, neglected graveyard (WA017-005002-). The graveyard is within a larger circular ecclesiastical enclosure in rough pasture (dims. c. 130m N-S; c. 95m E-W) which is defined by a fosse (at S: Wth at top 13.5m; Wth at base 4.5m; int. D 0.8m; ext. D 0.4m) E-SW, a curving road fence SW-NW and irregular field boundaries elsewhere. The standing stone (WA017-108----) was just outside this enclosure at SE.
Geophysical survey and excavation (02E1448; 03E0127) in advance of roadworks identified a fosse inside the ecclesiastical enclosure, around the E and S sides of the graveyard. Charcoal from a pit inside the inner enclosure produced a C14 date of 370-540 Cal AD, but charcoal from the outer ditch produced a date of 650-780 Cal. AD. It also identified two circular hut-sites (WA017-005005-; WA017-005006-) (diam. c. 10m), each with a central hearth and both possibly within an enclosure, just SE of the ecclesiastical enclosure. Most of these features were preserved beneath a layer of terram beneath the N-S R708 Airport road. (Corcoran 2004; O'Connell 2004; 2006d)

Corcoran, E. (2004) Kill St Lawrence, Waterford. Possible early Christian enclosure. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 495-6, No. 1812. Wordwell. Bray.
O'Connell, A. (2004) Recent archaeological investigations at Kill St. Lawrence, Waterford, carried out as part of the realignment of the R708 Airport Road. Decies, 60, 27-64.
O'Connell, A. (2006d) Kill St Lawrence. Church and graveyard. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 501, No. 1892. Wordwell. Bray.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 July 2011

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