Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Shankill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shankill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69842, -7.02893
- SMR number
- KK016-003----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 poor marshy pasture on the floor of a NE-SW running valley, on land sloping gently to the SE. There are fair views within the valley floor. During the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline a spread of charcoal and burnt stone, interpreted as probably part of a fulacht fiadh, was uncovered (Sleeman 1983, 365-6).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 April 2020
References
Sleeman, M. 1983 Sites identified during the construction of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline. In The Archaeology of the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline report 1983, 360-72.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.