Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Ballynameelagh, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynameelagh
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Limestone Cave
- Coordinates
- 52.10643, -7.75740
- SMR number
- WA030-016----
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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
Located on the E-facing slope of a N-S escarpment. It is described as a small midden associated with a cave that was nvestigated by R.J. Ussher at the end of the 19th century when the bones of domesticated animals and artefacts of the first millenium AD were recovered. The cave is no longer visible. Is named 'Limsetone cave' on the latest OS 6-inch map. (Ussher 1885, 365; Moore 1999, no. 425)
Revised by: Michael Moore, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 28 April 2014
References
Ussher, R.J. 1885 A description of objects found in the kitchen middens of raths. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 17, 362-68.
Moore, M. 1999 Archaeological inventory of county Waterford. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.