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Excavation - miscellaneous

Killoteran, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Killoteran, 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
Killoteran
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24049, -7.20343
SMR number
WA017-125----

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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 in a level landscape. First identified in archaeological testing (02E0318) in advance of the N25 Waterford City by-pass (O'Hara 2006), and fully excavated (03E1283) as Killoteran 8 (Linnane 2006). This is a pit (dims. c. 1m x c. 0.8m; D c. 0,5m) with an oxidised base, indicating burning. (Linane and Ginn 2011)

Linnane, S. J. (2006) Killoteran 8. Pit. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 501, No. 1890. Wordwell. Bray.
Linane, S. J. and V. Ginn (2011) Killoteran 8, 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, 14. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin
O'Hara, R. (2006) Site 5, fields 3-6. Killoteran. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 500, No. 1883. Wordwell. Bray

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 21 January 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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