County: Waterford Site name: Kilbarry
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WA017-003 Licence number: 18E0613
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Medieval settlement/preceptory
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 659400m, N 610450m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.242570, -7.130221
In the winter of 2018/19 ten areas on a development site at Kilbarry, Co. Waterford, were stripped of topsoil under archaeological supervision, recorded, and investigated.
Most of the features exposed were land boundary and drainage ditches. Some were medieval, and in two areas (19.1, 19.3) were associated with the scant remains of medieval buildings. In two areas (18.1, 19.4) late medieval or post-medieval drains were associated with burning.
Prehistoric activity was represented by a stray polished stone axe in a late ditch, and (in area 19.5) a disturbed burial cist and two separate cremations, one in a pot. The cemetery remains were on the shoulder of a hillside and had been truncated by ploughing, and by landscaping in the 20th century.
The last monitoring took place as construction on the site came to a close in 2020. Radiocarbon dates associated with the two vernacular buildings are (2σ) in the ranges AD 1123-1221 (0.758 probability) and AD1435-96 (0.971 probability).
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford.
