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Located on the floodplain of the River Suir. First identified in centre-line testing (02E0441) by Ian Russell of Archaeological Consultancy Services in advance of the Waterford city by-pass (Russell 2006a). Fully excavated (03E0409) by Aidan O'Connell of ACS as Woodstown 5. A burnt mound (diam. c. 15m; T 0.25m) overlay an oval unlined trough (dims. 1.53m NE-SW; 0.92m NW-SE; D 0.44m) associated with a gully, and a rectangular, clay-lined trough (dims. 2.12m NW-SE; 1.55m NE-SW; D 0.64m). The hearth (WA009-024----) is probably associated with it. (O'Connell 2006c; O'Connell and Ginn 2011a)
O'Connell, A. (2006c) Woodstown 5. Burnt mound. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 517, No. 1949. Wordwell. Bray.
O’Connell, A. and V. Ginn (2011a) Woodstown 5, 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, 19-20. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin
Russell, I. (2006a) Newtown/Woodstown/Gracedieu East/Gracedieu West. Testing. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 507-08. Wordwell. Bray.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 August 2010
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