County: Waterford Site name: DUNGARVAN: Davitt's Quay
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0126
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 626166m, N 593169m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.089823, -7.618163
Four test-trenches were machine cut into a site in the angle of Davitt’s Quay and Galwey’s Lane (east side).
The late 17th-century town wall was found in reasonable condition below ground to the west of Galwey’s Lane (Excavations 1996, 110–11, 96E0174), but had been robbed to the east on this site (Trenches 1 and 2). Close to Galwey’s Lane a cobbled surface survived at the back of the wall, and in both trenches cobbling was found at the seaward foot of the wall. No surviving scraps of walling beside Galwey’s Lane appeared to pre-date the late 18th-century robbing of the town wall.
When the town wall was abandoned, the south end of the site was truncated to provide material to raise the ground on the seaward side of the wall, infilling behind Davitt’s Quay. No surfaces survived the landscaping. An irregular spread of clay-extraction pits, most of them shallow, was found in a pair of trenches at a right angle to Galwey’s Lane (and in monitoring the lowering of the ground beside the lane). No suggestion was found of pre-18th-century buildings beside Galwey’s Lane, nor a pre-18th-century lane, and no sign of the medieval town defence (thought to follow Galwey’s Lane, but not evident on the west side either; see Excavations 1996).
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