2016:656 - MOTHEL: Home Farm, Waterford
County: Waterford
Site name: MOTHEL: Home Farm
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WA007-01, 011
Licence number: 16E0181
Author: Dave Pollock
Author/Organisation Address: Stradbally
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 639750m, N 616380m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.297638, -7.417233
Test excavations were carried out at Home Farm, Mothel, Co. Waterford, in the footprint of a proposed new farm building. Drains survived under the old farmyard, but the surface of the yard had been removed during landscaping for new buildings in the late 20th century.
The proposed development is 100m from the surviving fragment of Mothel Abbey, but no medieval features were encountered, and no indications of early settlement (charcoal and burnt soil) were found.