Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Bonnetstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bonnetstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67876, -7.32526
- SMR number
- KK014-129----
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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
On an eastern ridge of the Slieve Ardagh foothills, overlooking Kilkenny City and the Nore river valley, in rough pasture. Identified during archaeological monitoring of a Bord Gáis Éireann gas pipeline development (excav. no. 99E0601) (Stevens 2000, 138). It consisted of a thin spread of ash and burnt mound material (dims. c. 11m N-S; c. 9m E-W; T 0.1m) and a small oblong trough/pit (L 1.5m; Wth 0.75m; D 0.2), bisected by a modern field boundary (ibid.). The trough/pit contained a backfill of burnt mound material of fire-cracked sandstone and silty clay (ibid.). A stake-hole was found 0.37m to the SE of this trough/pit (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 June 2020
References
Stevens, P. 2000 Bonnetstown, Co. Kilkenny: fulacht fiadh. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 138, No. 427. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.