Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ballybeg, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23493, -7.15202
- SMR number
- WA017-127----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 an E-facing slope. Identified and excavated in archaeological testing (03E1174) in advance of the R710 Waterford outer ring road (Hegarty 2006b, 501-02). A single large, flat-bottomed pit (diam. 1.6m; D c. 0.28m) contained some carbonised hazelnut shells.
Hegarty, L. (2006b) Lackan. Railway line. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 507, No. 1913. Wordwell. Bray
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.