Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
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
- 52.57959, -7.22453
- SMR number
- KK023-146----
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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). A bowl furnace comprising a deep, roughly circular pit containing a considerable amount of slag concentrated on the rim. The furnace appeared to have filled up further with each use. A number of other pits across the excavated area produced slag and other metalworking debris. A cereal-drying kiln (KK023-145---) was excavated c. 20m to the SE. (Devine and Zimny 2009; Devine 2010, 239-40, no. 901)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 20 November 2013
References
Devine, E. 2010 AR082, Danesfort. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 239-40, no. 901. Bray. Wordwell.
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 Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.