County: Waterford Site name: WATERFORD: Palace Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0230
Author: Orla M.B. Scully
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 660237m, N 611852m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.255088, -7.117713
The excavation took place in advance of the proposed extension to the west of the Theatre Royal, The Mall, Waterford.
A portion of the city wall was excavated, and an adjoining cellar at the north. An entrance to the cellar had left an arched doorway broken through the wall. A medieval stone-lined cesspit was excavated, and of particular interest was a stone revetting wall 2m in front of the city wall, built on the old marsh that existed prior to the infilling which created The Mall. This was a possible landing stage or early quay wall.
16 Riverstown, Tramore, Co. Waterford
