2007:1831 - MATTHEWSTOWN, Waterford
County: Waterford
Site name: MATTHEWSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 07E0396
Author: Jo Moran
Author/Organisation Address: Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
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.
