County: Waterford Site name: Woodhouse
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WA032-010 Licence number: 13E0362
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Early post-medieval house
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 636175m, N 597118m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.124760, -7.471690
Refurbishment of the largely 18th-century house at Woodhouse, Stradbally, Co. Waterford, was monitored towards the end of 2013 and into 2014.
The earliest piece of the present house is a rectangular block, probably built in the early 17th century, but perhaps as late as the early 18th century. No original openings were exposed during recent works and no original floors have survived.
Investigations in the footprint of the standing building found scorching from a large kiln, subsequent levelling of a platform and the construction of a wooden building (D) on slight stone footings.
Investigations outside, to the south, found the fragmentary remains of a cobbled yard and a cluster of stone buildings in use in the 17th century. One of the buildings may have been a mill, fed by a lade off the River Tay nearby. The large kiln represented by repeated scorching may have dried grain.
The kiln was removed and the lade infilled to level a platform on the hillside. A small rectangular timber building erected on the platform appears to have been temporary, and was replaced with the initial block of the standing building (probably the early 17th-century stone house mentioned in a deposition of 1641).
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
