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
- 52.23630, -7.20602
- SMR number
- WA017-128----
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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 at the crest of a W-facing slope at the E edge of the S-N Ballymoat stream valley, with the stream c. 280m to the W. Identified in centre-line testing (05E0763) of the alternate route of the N25 Waterford city bypass (Russell 2008, 361), and excavated completely (E3448) as Kilotteran 10 during 2007 (O'Hara, R. 2010a). Seven pits (max. diam. 1.5m; max. D 0.45m) were recorded in a concentrated area (dims. c. 10m x c. 15m), and small samples of animal bone and iron slag were recovered. (O'Hara and Ginn 2011g)
O'Hara, R. (2010a) Killoteran 10. Pits. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 516, No. 1823. Wordwell. Dublin.
O’Hara, R. and V. Ginn (2011g) Killoteran 10, 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, 14-15. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin
Russell, I. (2008b) Various townlands. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 361, No. 1481. Wordwell. Dublin.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.