County: Waterford Site name: KNOCKADERRY LOWER/JOHNSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 16:106, 16:31 Licence number: 02E1445
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 648649m, N 607210m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.214504, -7.288097
Planning permission was granted by Waterford County Council to erect a 100kv loop line in association with a substation constructed at Cullenagh in 2001. The development required the erection of double wooden poles at intervals along the line. It was a condition of planning that all ground disturbance associated with the development be monitored. Work was to be carried out in areas within the zones of archaeological potential of a fulacht fiadh in the townland of Johnstown and a delisted group of fulachta fiadh in Knockaderry Lower.
Six trenches, each c. 3m long and 1.2m wide, were excavated. Two trenches were dug within the zone of archaeological potential of the delisted group of fulachta fiadh in Knockaderry. Fulacht fiadh material was present in these trenches at c. 0.15m below present ground level. The full extent of the fulacht fiadh was not determined owing to the limited nature of the work. No finds or features of archaeological interest were noted in the other four trenches.
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