Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Newport East, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newport East
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01413, -7.86185
- SMR number
- WA037-006----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A small collection of flints, including some worked bladelets indicating an early mesolithic date (Woodman 1984, 9, Fig. 4) was recovered from a field overlooking the N-S River Blackwater on its steep W bank. The material is now in the Department of Archaeology, University College, Cork.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 07 October 2011
References
Woodman, P. 1984 The early prehistory of Munster. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 89, 1-11.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.