Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Kellymount, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kellymount
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68703, -7.03184
- SMR number
- KK016-024----
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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 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). Quantities of iron slag, combined with the presence of small iron tools (including a tanged knife of early medieval type) and fragments of tools found in gullies, drains and waterholes suggested that ironworking had taken place in the vicinity. A ring-ditch (KK016-023----) was excavated 5m to the NE and a fulacht fia (KK016-022----) was excavated c. 10m to the NE. (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 Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.