Fulacht fia in Knockhouse Upper

Situated on the floodplain of the SW-NE River Suir, which is c. 50m to the NW. First identified in centre-line testing (02E0441) by Tara O'Neill of Archaeological Consultancy Services in advance of the Waterford City by-pass (O'Neill 2004b), and fully excavated (03E0588) by Ian Russell of ACS as Gracedieu West 1. A large area of burnt mound material (dims. 33m WNW-ESE; 13m NNE-SSW; max. T 1m) overlay a wood-lined trough (dims. 2.2m E-W; 1.65m N-S; D 0.6m), which was at the E end of the mound. A plank from the trough produced a C14 date of Cal BC 1060-820 (Russell 2007a, app. 1). Stratigraphically, it post-dated a smaller fulacht fia (WA009-032002-), the trough of which is just 12m to the NW. The hearth (WA009-044----) is c. 160m to the SW.(Russell 2006b, 498; Russell and Ginn 2011c) O'Neill, T. (2004b) Ballyduff East/Killoteran/Woodstown/Knockhouse Upper/Gracedieu West. Assessment. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 486-7, No. 1781. Wordwell. Bray. Russell, I. (2006b) Gracedieu West 1. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 498, No. 1878. Wordwell. Bray. Russell, I. (2007a) N 25. Waterford bypass. Archaeological investigation. Contract 1. Final report of Gracie Dieu West 1. Licence 03E0588. Unpublished report. Archaeological Consultancy Services. Russell, I. and V. Ginn (2011c) Graciedieu West 1, 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. 1, 77-80. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 May 2011