County: Waterford Site name: WATERFORD: Sergeant’s Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 9:5 Licence number: 02E1786
Author: Orla Scully
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 660877m, N 611195m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.249104, -7.108463
Testing took place here before development. The site is outside the walled city of Waterford, behind 25 O’Connell Street, at the junction between Meeting House Lane and Sergeant’s Lane. This area of the town was not developed until the 18th century. The development involves the renovation of the three-storey street-fronting building and its extension into an area to the south. The southern part of the site is currently used as a carpark, and testing was undertaken in this area.
The overburden was rubble and mortar-rich, pale brown soil, under industrial levelling. The rubble contained mostly red brick, slate and occasional stones. Less frequent was yellow brick. Brick was found as deep as 1.2m below the carpark surface. Boulder clay occurred at 0.9–1.5m below the modern surface. Three stone wall foundations exposed by the testing all incorporated machine-produced brick in their fabric. The site is the former location of a ‘fire engine house’ (1872 OS town plan, sheet 1X.79).
7 Bayview, Tramore, Co. Waterford
