County: Waterford Site name: 7 Blackfriars Street, Waterford
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WA009–005 Licence number: 05E0439
Author: Dave Pollock, Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford.
Site type: Urban, medieval/post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 660691m, N 612505m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.260902, -7.110944
Alterations are proposed for the interior of a three-storey building in Blackfriars Street, Waterford. To assess the archaeological impact, three small test-trenches were hand dug inside the building and patches of wall plaster were stripped to underlying finishes and wall fabric.
The building was constructed around the middle of the 19th century, reusing much of the shell of earlier buildings but raising the floor levels c. 1m. The buildings had spread across the site of the south aisle of the medieval Dominican church. The church was just within the 13th-century walled city, built over the 12th-century city defences. Some medieval fabric has survived in the north wall of the present building and some may have survived in the east wall. Medieval wall fabric and archaeological levels are not threatened by the proposed development.
Editor’s note: Although this licence was issued during 2005, the report on the work was not received in time for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
