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Excavation - miscellaneous

Kilbarry, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Kilbarry, 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
Kilbarry
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23203, -7.14149
SMR number
WA017-140----

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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 in a low-lying, level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (06E0996) recorded one roasting pit (dims. 1m x 0.7m; D 0.43m) filled with silts containing burnt stone, animal bone and flecks of charcoal, which produced a C14 date of 783-992 cal. AD. A second pit (dims. 2.2m x 1.4m; D 0.45m) containing charcoal inclusions was recorded c. 60m to the SW. (Moloney 2009)

Moloney, C. (2009) Final report on archaeological monitoring at Six Cross Roads Retail Park, Waterford. Unpublished report. Haedland Archaeology.

Compiled by: Michael Moore and Claire Breen

Date of upload: 25 March 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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