Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ballyquirk,blanchvillespark, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyquirk,blanchvillespark
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65493, -7.09158
- SMR number
- KK020-109----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 the S slopes of Knockdeen Hill. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3862). A number of pits, post-holes and stake-holes in no obvious pattern although there were two notable clusters and two possible unrelated alignments. Four sherds of Beaker pottery were identified from one of the pits in one of the alignments. A sample from this pit yielded a radiocarbon date of 1878-1689 cal BC (UBA-12227). A sample from a pit in a cluster c. 10m to the S produced a date of 2871-2584 cal BC (UBA-12229). (Elliott 2010, 245, 922; Elliott and Coughlan 2011)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 December 2013
References
Elliott, R. and Coughlan, T. 2011 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4 – Knocktopher to Powerstown. Final report. Ministerial Direction: A032. Registration No. E3962. Site AR111, Blanchvillespark/Ballyquirk 1. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Elliott, R. 2010 AR111, Flagmount South. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavatios 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 245, no. 922. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.