County: Waterford Site name: WATERFORD: Newgate Street/Well Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 9:5 Licence number: 00E0492
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Cultivation ridges
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 659453m, N 612018m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.256665, -7.129163
Ahead of a proposed workshop extension between Well Lane and the city wall (outside), three small trenches were cut. The trench closest to the wall did not penetrate below 19th-century floor levels at 0.75m below present ground level, but the further trenches hit bedrock and clay subsoil at 0.75–1.2m down. A thin soil over the subsoil/bedrock (less than 0.1m thick) is the truncated remains of cultivation pre-dating 18th-century development. The ground has risen c. 1.5m against the outside face of the city wall since the late medieval period (and appears to have dropped c. 0.5m against the inside).
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
