Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Bawnfune (gaultiere By., Lisnakill Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawnfune (gaultiere By., Lisnakill Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23706, -7.19686
- SMR number
- WA017-131001-
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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 on a gentle E-facing slope. Identified in centre-line testing (05E0763) of the alternate route of the N25 Waterford city bypass (Russell 2008b), and excavated completely (E3445) as Bawnfune 3 during 2007 (O'Hara 2010d). Six small pits (diam. c. 1m; D c. 0.5m) surrounded a small depression (dims. c. 15m x c. 10m; D c. 0.2m) that may have been a shallow pond. A post-hole produced a C14 date of cal BC 3200-2030 BC. No artefacts were recovered, but it may have played a role in relation to the burnt mound (WA017-131002-), c. 60m to the E. (O'Hara, R. 2009d); O'Hara and Ginn 2011b
O'Hara, R. (2009d) N25 Waterford bypass alternative route. Archaeological investigation. Contract 1. Final reprot on the Archaeological excavation of Bawnfune 3. E3445. Unpublished report. DEHLG. Archaeological Consultancy Services.
O'Hara, R. (2010d) Bawnfune 3. Pits. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 511, No. 1803. Wordwell. Dublin.
Russell, I. (2008b) Various townlands. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 361, No. 1481. Wordwell. Dublin.
O’Hara, R. and V. Ginn (2011b) Bawnfune 3, 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. 1, 51. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.