County: Waterford Site name: Matthewstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0396
Author: Jo Moran, Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford.
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 652745m, N 602630m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.172971, -7.228864
Test-trenching ahead of proposed further works at the Matthewstown pig unit, Fenor, Co. Waterford, found remains of a fulacht fiadh. Burnt sandstone fragments overlay a bleached buried soil, in an oval of c. 11m by 15m. The fulacht would have been close to a loch or bog, which has been adapted in recent years as a wetland filtering plant for the pig unit.
An alternative site for the proposed new building was tested, and nothing of archaeological interest was found.
