Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Kilrathmurry, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrathmurry
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43129, -7.00624
- SMR number
- KD001-013----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 2004, archaeological excavation (Licence no. 04E1181) of a burrow-pit associated with the construction of the M4 Kinnegad-Kilcock motorway uncovered a spread associated with metalworking, the truncated remains of a bowl furnace and portion of a possible smithing hearth. (Clarke 2007, 202 (No. 845))
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.