County: Waterford Site name: DUNGARVAN: Rice's Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 31:40 Licence number: 00E0775
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Cultivation ridges
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 625758m, N 592927m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.087667, -7.624134
Ahead of the construction of an apartment block, three trenches were cut in a field beside Rice’s Street, Dungarvan. The field is close to the site of a souterrain.
At 0.6–0.7m below present ground level, the silty clay subsoil with exposures of shaley bedrock was cut by parallel furrows, less than 0.1m deep into the subsoil, at intervals of c. 2.5m. The furrows were aligned with the mid-19th-century field boundaries, sweeping back from the medieval road south from Dungarvan (Rice’s Street is part of the recent Cork Road). The furrows appear to be medieval or post-medieval and were cut by two later open drains at right angles.
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
