County: Kilkenny Site name: KILLASPY (Sites 12-14)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0247
Author: Joanna Wren, for Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Kiln and Field boundary
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 661376m, N 615305m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.285989, -7.100408
Investigations were carried out on behalf of Waterford City Council as part of Contract 3 archaeological investigations prior to construction of the N25 Waterford bypass. Contract 2 pre-construction testing on these sites by Dave Pollock (Excavations 2003, No. 1030, 02E0196) identified a small hollow with stony fill (Site 12), a patch of burnt ground (Site 13), a pit with stony soil and some charcoal, and a group of stones at the base of the ploughsoil (Site 14).
Full resolution took place in March 2004. The stone fill in Site 12 was established to be in a pit with a possible plank lining. The burnt earth in Site 13 was the remains of a small kiln or oven and a previously unidentified pit was also recorded here. In Site 14 the stones at the base of the ploughsoil and the pit with stones and charcoal proved to be the remains of post-medieval boundary ditches. There were also two previously unidentified ovens or kilns on this site. One in the south-east corner was cut by the later post-medieval boundary ditches. A second, undisturbed, kiln was located 5.5m farther south-west.
The Mile Post, Waterford
