County: Waterford Site name: WATERFORD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 9:5 Licence number: 99E0207
Author: Orla Scully
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 659453m, N 612018m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.256665, -7.129163
This licence was extended to cover monitoring of the remaining part of the Waterford Mains Improvement Scheme, which had commenced in May 1999 (Excavations 1999, 294). Areas disturbed by the laying of pipes at this time included The Quay, Bilberry, Exchange Street, Henrietta Street, High Street, Olaf Street and Thomas Street.
It was generally the policy of the scheme to follow the line of the old sewer system. The brick-built culverts were first laid in 1833. Further modifications were made in 1900. The 19th-century pipe layers had, in places, breached the city wall along the quay to allow the effluent to debouche into the river. Where the modern pipe had to cross the line of the city wall, it kept within the confines of the earlier damage.
At the quay end of both Exchange Street and Henrietta Street the city wall was exposed and recorded. Further south (uphill) of the city wall in Exchange Street the remains of a medieval gate were exposed. The side of a building with a Dundry stone jamb was exposed in Henrietta Street. This could represent the gate into the city known from maps as Goose Gate. In High Street some earlier street surfaces were recorded, and in both High Street and nearby Olaf Street layers representing domestic flooring were recorded.
7 Bayview, Tramore, Co. Waterford
