Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Ballygarran (gaultiere By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarran (gaultiere By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indciated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18432, -7.07504
- SMR number
- WA027-003007-
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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 at the crest of an E-facing slope within a trivallate enclosure (see WA027-003010-) which has been suggested as 'the site of an early church' (Power 1952, 215). In the course of excavations undertaken on the site in 1940 M.J. Bowman recovered large quantities of ‘iron’(between 100 and 150 kg) which together with a ‘furnace’ feature and fragments of a possible tuyere indicates a period of intense iron working on site (Curtin 2015, 139-40) which may date to the early modern period.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 21 December 2015
References
Curtin, J. 2015 A reassessment of Michael J. Bowman's excavation of Killeenagh Burial Ground, Ballygarran, Co. Waterford, 1940. M.A. Thesis, University College Cork. National Monuments Service Archive.
Power, P. 1952 The placenames of the Decies (second ed.). Cork University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.