County: Waterford Site name: KILMINNIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 31:44 Licence number: 99E0665
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Midden and Quarry
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 635017m, N 598850m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.140404, -7.488423
A patch of midden was exposed during alterations to the roadside close to Kilminnin graveyard. A shallow, polygonal pit contained domestic and industrial waste (crucibles with copper waste) and cut an earlier, larger hollow. A sherd of slipware suggests a medieval date.
Patches of associated metalling survived, but the area was generally badly damaged by limestone quarrying for local limekilns (not associated with the medieval activity). The site is interpreted as part of a medieval settlement at the mouth of the Glendine River, probably beside a church (not recorded, no remains surviving) at the present graveyard.
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
