Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
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
- 52.58055, -7.22304
- SMR number
- KK023-147----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a slight N-facing slope on an undulating plain. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3538). A small, circular pit filled with a charcoal-rich deposit containing cremated bone. Three stake-holes, a pit and a possible hearth were clustered around the cremation. A larger pit overlapped it and may have contained a marker stone. (Devine 2010, 240-41, no. 902; Devine and Sygut 2009)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 November 2013
References
Devine, E. and Sygut, J. 2009 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4: Knocktopher to Powerstown. Preliminary archaeological resolution report. E3538. Danesfort 6. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Devine, E. 2010 AR083, Danesfort. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 240-41, no. 902. Bray. Wordwell.
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