1996:392 - WATERFORD: Palace Lane, Waterford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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