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Excavation - miscellaneous

Butlerstown North, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Butlerstown North, 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
Butlerstown North
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24181, -7.18958
SMR number
WA017-136----

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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 on a W-facing slope with a S-N stream c. 60m to the W. Identified in centre-line testing (05E0763) of the alternate route of the N25 Waterford city bypass (Russell 2008b), and excavated completely (E3441) as Butlerstown North 1 during 2007 (Lennon, 2010c). This is a single small pit (diams. 0.48m; D 0.11m) with a fill that included oxidised clay, burnt bone and charcoal. (Lennon 2009b)

Russell, I. (2008b) Various townlands. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 361, No. 1481. Wordwell. Dublin.
Lennon, A-M. (2009b) N25 Waterford bypass alternative route. Archaeological investigation. Contract 1. Final reprot on the Archaeological excavation of Butlerstown North 1. Unpublished report. Licence: E3441. Archaeological Consultancy Services.
Lennon, A-M. (2010c) Butlerstown North 1. Pit. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 512, No. 1807. Wordwell. Dublin.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 27 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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