Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Shandon, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shandon
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10121, -7.62612
- SMR number
- WA031-073----
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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 relatively high ground overlooking the W-E River Colligan which is immediately to the N, at the point where it turns S before entering the sea at Dungarvan Harbour, c. 1.7km to the S. It was identified in monitoring (00E0442) by S. Elder in Area 2a and 2b of a large housing development (Elder 2002b, 5-6; 2003), and subsequently completely excavated (01E0327) by E. Dennehy (2001; 2003).
Located about 50m E of the enclosure (WA031-072----) were three areas of activity. A northern group of post-holes and pit-bottoms revealed no pattern of a strucutre. Just to the S was a small semicircular structure (int. diam. c. 2m) identified as two lines of post-holes and associated with metal-working pits, with a pit-bottom of domestic waste (diam. 1.35m; D 0.87m) just to its SE.
Dennehy, E. (2001) Report on archaeological excavations and testing at Area 2, Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Unpublished report. Eachtra Archaeological Projects.
Dennehy, E. (2003) Shandon, Dungarvan: Medieval rectangular earthwork and environs. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 387-8, No. 1242. Wordwell. Bray.
Elder, S. (2002b) Report on archaeological monitoring of Areas 2 and 3 of a development at Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Unpublished report. Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Elder, S. (2003) Shandon, Dungarvan. Urban. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 387, No. 1241. Wordwell. Bray
Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.