Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Ballygarran (decies Without Drum By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarran (decies Without Drum By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15571, -7.24984
- SMR number
- WA025-127----
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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 S-facing slope. Test excavation (05E0243) revealed features associated with metal-working (Pollock 2009). These included pits and linear features packed with cobblestones and waste from metal-working. No furnaces were found, but the waste suggests that medieval or earlier metal-working was conducted in the vicinity. Earthwork sites (WA025-049----) and (WA025-050----) are c. 80m to the NW and c. 60m to the W respectively.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 20th May, 2011.
References
Pollock, D. 2009 Ballygarran. Metalworking waste. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 525, No. 1967. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.