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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
52.23630, -7.20602
SMR number
WA017-128----

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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 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

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

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