Tramore of Yore

A blog dedicated to the history of the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford


Prehistory

  • Tramore in Prehistory: The Mesolithic

    Tramore in Prehistory: The Mesolithic

    Reverend Power in his book ‘the Place-Names of the Decies’, published in 1907, notes that, Tramore Burrow shows ‘traces of occupation by a prehistoric race’ in the form of kitchen middens, which he thought were possibly from the Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age. He further elaborated that ‘Kitchen middens are sometimes exposed after storms, and Continue reading