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The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle E-facing slope, in flat pasture. Excavated in 2007/8 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3858). Thirteen burnt spreads comprising heat-shattered stone and grey silt may have formed part of a larger mound of material. They overlay three troughs, two of which were conjoined. Three stake-holes E of one trough may have been associated. A sub-circular stone platform built with 14 slab-like stones resting above a layer of pebbles was located to the N of the conjoined troughs. A number of pits were located to the E and SE of the troughs and may have been storage or roasting pits. Three linear features associated with the troughs may have been drainage gullies. (Wiersbicki 2009; 2010, 251-2, no. 954)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 8 January 2014

References

Wierzbicki, P. 2010 AR127, Kellymount. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 251-2, no. 954. Dublin. Wordwell.

Wierzbicki, P. 2009 Preliminary Archaeological Resolution report. N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4B. Ministerial Direction: A032. Site name: AR127, Kellymount 5. Registration No. E3858. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.