County: Waterford Site name: Ballbricken Green, Waterford
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 20E0662
Author: John O’Neill & Fergal Murtagh
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 660263m, N 612407m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.260065, -7.117237
IAC Archaeology carried out a programme of archaeological monitoring of groundworks located at Ballybricken Green. The site lies within the zone of notification for the historic city of Waterford (WA009-005), and there are a number of recorded monuments in the area, however only one lies within a 200m radius of the works, the bastioned fort (WA009-005048) known as ‘The Citadel’, which lies c. 130m north-east of the substation. It is currently occupied by the Garda divisional headquarters for Waterford. Construction of the fort may have begun as early as the 1590s and was completed in 1625.
Monitoring took place over a small area of 3m x 3m. The topsoil (total depth c. 0.4m) consisted of a mid-brown clayey sand garden soil (depth c. 0.25–0.35m) with modern debris mixed throughout, this overlays a sterile light orange clayey sand with thickness from c. 0.05–0.15m. Natural subsoil consisted of a mottled bedrock of light orange shale-like material mixed through with tough granite-like material. Some modern tarmacadam was noted on the western periphery of the substation similar to that found on the nearby road and footpath.
Nothing of archaeological significance was noted during the course of these works.
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