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Excavation - miscellaneous

Adamstown (Middlethird By., Kilmeadan Par.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Adamstown (Middlethird By., Kilmeadan Par.), 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
Adamstown (Middlethird By., Kilmeadan Par.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23386, -7.22732
SMR number
WA017-123008-

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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 towards the top of a SE-facing slope. First identified in archaeological monitoring (03E1064) of the re-alignment of a gas-pipeline (Dempsey 2006) and later fully excavated (03E1325) as Adamstown 4 (Russell 2006j). A pit (dims. 1.5m x 1m; D 0.12) was lined with fire-redenned stones, from which a stone anvil or hammer-stone was recovered. A C14 date of cal. 1380-920 was obtained from this fill. A smaller pit (dims. 0.7m a 0.65m; D 0.5m) and a cluster of stakeholes is nearby. (Russell and Ginn 2009b, 8-9; 2011e)

Dempsey, J. (2006) Adamstown and Ballyduff East. Pits, kilns and furrows. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 492, No. 1853. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. (2006j) Adamstown 4. Pits. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 492, No. 1856. 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 Unpublished report.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 (2011e) Adamstown 4, 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. 2, 9-10. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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