County: Waterford Site name: MOTHEL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WA007-010001 Licence number: 04E0683
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Religious house - Augustinian canons
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 639786m, N 616643m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.300000, -7.416667
Works at a farmyard beside Mothel Abbey, a ruined Augustinian house with a reputed 6th-century predecessor, were granted planning permission on condition that an impact assessment was prepared. The site for a new slatted house had been quarried into the hillside in the recent past, removing any potential archaeological material, but the route of a new trackway around the quarry had only been top-soiled. A metalled surface on a terrace exposed in the footprint of the track may represent peripheral medieval activity at the edge of the abbey precinct.
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
