Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Killoteran, County Waterford, Ireland
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.