Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballymaclode, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaclode
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24122, -7.04989
- SMR number
- WA018-083----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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 low cliff on the E bank of a short SW-NE stream at the point where it enters the King's Channel of the River Suir. It is beside a natural spring at the base of a steep W-facing slope. It was first identified in monitoring (Excavation Licence 05E0517) for the Waterford main drainage scheme in September 2006 by J. Moran (2009) when a Late Bronze Age gold bracelet was recovered. The monument was subsequently fully excavated within the wayleave (Excavation Licence 06E0990) by D. Pollock when two fragments from a flat band of gold with a recurved terminal were found (Pollock 2009c).
The site had been and truncated by a pond but appeared as a mound (dims. c. 12m N-S; c. 3-6m E-W; max. T c. 0.8m). It developed around a slight hollow when two oval pits (dims. 1.8m x 1.5m; D 0.7m: 1m x 0.5m; D 0.15m), both filled with shattered sandstone, were dug. They were followed by a third pit (diam. c. 2m; D 0.7m) and the burnt mound material was layered with upcast, including from a rectangular trough (dims. 2m E-W; c. 1.3m N-S; D 0.4m) dug over the larger of the earlier pits. The straight sides of the trough suggest it was wood-lined, and both the trough and the third pit were filled with burnt mound material. The mound produced two C14 dates - 1370-1340 Cal. BC and 1280-900 Cal. BC. A stone axe and 36 lithics were recovered, mostly from ploughsoil, but they suggest earlier activity in the vicinity. (Pollock 2009f)
Moran, J. (2009) Waterford main drainage scheme, counties Kilkenny/Waterford. Various. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 531-2, No. 2000. Wordwell. Dublin.
Pollock, D. (2009c) Ballymaclode. Burnt mound material. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 525, No. 1968. Wordwell. Dublin.
Pollock, D. (2009f) Final excavation report on a burnt mound site at Ballymaclode, County Waterford. Unpublished report. Judith Carroll and Company.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.