Kiln in Carrigavoe, County Waterford

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Situated just S of an E-W field bank and ditch on a level landscape. Identified in archaeological monitoring (03E0883) in advance of the R708 Waterford City Airport road, and excavated under the same licence (Scully 2006b, 501-02). The base of a subcircular fire-bowl (dims. 0.8m x 0.7m; D 0.17m) was attached to the remnants of a flue (L 0.8m; Wth 0.26-0.37m; max. D 0.3m), but it was damaged before it was completely recorded (Scully 2003), but is probably post-medieval in date (Scully 2004, 21). Scully, O. (2003) Archaeological monitoring of topsoil removal Airport Road, Williamstown to Carrigavoe, Waterford. Licence: 03E0883. Unpublihsed report. DEHLG. Author. Scully, O. (2004) Archaeological monitoring of the topsoil stripping on the R708 airport road re-alignment (Excavation licence No. 03E0883). Decies No. 60, 19-25. Scully, O. (2006b) Kill St. Lawrence. Monitoring. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 500-01, No. 1893. Wordwell. Bray.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA017-126

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