Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Furnace
Adamstown (middlethird By., Kilmeadan Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Adamstown (middlethird By., Kilmeadan Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23476, -7.22012
- SMR number
- WA017-123007-
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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 on a SE-facing slope. First identified in archaeological testing (02E0275) in advance of the N25 Waterford City by-pass (Russell (2006f), and fully excavated (03E1215) as a feature in Area A of Adamstown 1 (Russell 2006i).
Within the hut-site (WA017-123006-), but probably not associated with it, is a pit (dims. c. 0.62m x 0.5m; D 8cm) that contained a fragment of slag and a heat-shattered grinding stone. An adjacent pit (dims. 0.53 x 0.53m; D 0.15m) also contained a furnace-bottom. (Russell and Ginn 2009b; 2011a)
Russell, I. (2006f) Site 3, Adamstown/Knockanagh. Testing. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 489-90, No. 1851. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. (2006i) Adamstown 1. Prehistoric. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 490-1, No. 1852. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. and Ginn (2009b) N25 Waterford By-pass. Contract 1. Final report on the archaeological excavation of Adamstown 1. Unpublished report. DOHLG. Archaeological Consultancy Services.
Russell, I. and V. Ginn (2011a) Adamstonwn 1, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 1, 25-30. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.