County: Waterford Site name: DUNGARVAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0576
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Pound
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 626013m, N 593597m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.093676, -7.620363
Test-trenches cut by engineers ahead of a new sewerage scheme in and around Dungarvan were monitored in October and November 2000. The new scheme will not enter the walled town but will run immediately outside the wall in Emmett Street/Jacknell Street (between the wall and the extramural medieval church).
The two trenches close to the wall found no indications of the expected defensive ditch. In the eastern test-trench (15) an earlier road surface (18th-century?) immediately overlay subsoil; in the other test-trench (14) the lower ground level inside a ‘pound’ (on 1775 survey) survived, but the contemporary road level beside it had been truncated.
Trenches across other roads outside the walled town produced little; early road surfaces had not survived recent rebuilding.
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
