County: Waterford Site name: WATERFORD: Deanery Garden
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0447
Author: Orla Scully
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 660987m, N 612422m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.260127, -7.106629
To the rear of City Hall, at the east side of Cathedral Square, what was originally a semi-underground building of 13th-century date had been buried to the level of the undercroft roof. Two trenches were excavated along the length of the rectangular building. The floor of the interior was also excavated. The front (west-facing) wall of the undercroft was exposed for a length of 14.2m to an average depth of 2.2m, and in one section the trench was dug to the off-set of the footing, a maximum depth of 3.45m. Three window opes/arrowloops were exposed, the fourth lies under an annexe to the Deanery (the present-day Finance Office of the Corporation). The rear wall of the building was also exposed, the construction trench for which was identified and voided, and the earlier medieval and possibly Viking layers cut by the construction trench were removed to the level of the old ground surface. Post-excavation work is now in progress.
7 Bayview, Tramore, Co. Waterford
