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2021:363 - KNOCKBOY, Waterford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Waterford

Site name: KNOCKBOY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: WA013-034001

Licence number: E0005467

Author: Orla Scully

Author/Organisation Address: 7 Bayview Tramore X91 X462

Site type: Church and Graveyard

Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)

ITM: E 621551m, N 604805m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.194612, -7.684777

Conservation work has been carried out to the ruined parish church of Seskinan (WA013-034001-) under the Adopt a Monument Scheme, managed by Abarta Heritage. The church is on the site of an earlier church, of which no evidence remains, apart from eight ogham stones. During conservation work a 9th stone was uncovered by the stonemasons.

The ministerial consent was issued in relation to the laying of a gravel path along surface of the existing pathway which extends along the east and south inside the boundary ditch of the graveyard. A methodology for the path laying was discussed with the voluntary committee, which would not involve removal of any material to avoid disturbance of any potential archaeological material.


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