Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Knockaulin, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaulin
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11552, -6.77561
- SMR number
- KD028-038003-
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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
Sherds of Western Neolithic pottery, a scatter of arrow and javelin heads and several polished stone axes - indicative of possible settlement debris - were found during the archaeological excavations of Dun Ailinne, a ceremonial enclosure (KD028-038001-). A pit burial (KD028-038005-) was also excavated. (Johnson 1990, 26-31; Waddell 1998, 343-7)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 200/1954).
References
Johnson, S.A. 1990, The Neolithic and Bronge Age Activity at Dún Ailinne, Co. Kildare, Emania, No 7, 1990, 26-31.
Waddell, J. 1998 The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.