Excavation

Situated at the crest of a W-facing slope at the E edge of the S-N Ballymoat stream valley, with the stream c. 280m to the W. Identified in centre-line testing (05E0763) of the alternate route of the N25 Waterford city bypass (Russell 2008, 361), and excavated completely (E3448) as Kilotteran 10 during 2007 (O'Hara, R. 2010a). Seven pits (max. diam. 1.5m; max. D 0.45m) were recorded in a concentrated area (dims. c. 10m x c. 15m), and small samples of animal bone and iron slag were recovered. (O'Hara and Ginn 2011g) O'Hara, R. (2010a) Killoteran 10. Pits. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 516, No. 1823. Wordwell. Dublin. O’Hara, R. and V. Ginn (2011g) Killoteran 10, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 2, 14-15. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin Russell, I. (2008b) Various townlands. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 361, No. 1481. Wordwell. Dublin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 January 2011