Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Bronze Age
Danesfort, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Danesfort
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57925, -7.22504
- SMR number
- KK023-142----
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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 rolling agricultural landscape on a gentle N-facing slope. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3456, Structure 1). A circular house (6.8m x 9.5m) defined by 10 shallow post-holes spaced at 2m intervals with a second internal ring of 5 post-holes. A porch feature (4m x 2.5m) protruding at SE comprised 11 posts of varying dimensions. An oval-shaped hearth was located off-centre with two pits adjacent, one on either side. Two distinct clusters of stake-holes located on both sides of the hearth represent a spit. Two other houses of similar construction (KK023-143---- and KK023-144----) were excavated c. 20m and c. 50m to the S and SW. (Devine and Zimny 2009; Devine 2010, 239-40, no. 901)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 20 November 2013
References
Devine, E. and Zimny, P. 2009 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Improvement Scheme. Draft final report. E3456. Danesfort 5. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Devine, E. 2010 AR082, Danesfort. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 239-40, no. 901. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.