Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Matthewstown, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Matthewstown
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17539, -7.22413
- SMR number
- WA026-087----
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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 an E-facing slope. Archaeological testing (Excavation Licence 07E0396) at the edge of a farm complex uncovered an oval spread of broken and burnt stones (dims. c. 15m N-S; c. 11m E-W). (Moran 2010)
Moran, J. (2010) Mathewstown. Fulacht fia. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 517, No. 1831. Wordwell. Dublin.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 27 May 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.