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Danesfort, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Danesfort, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Danesfort
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.58036, -7.22356
SMR number
KK023-149----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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 concentration of post-holes, stake-holes, pits, and boundaries clustered together on the western edge of a natural pool. Medieval pottery was recovered from all of these and the cluster of activity is thought to represent a small rural dwelling of the 13–14th century. It was evident from the deposits that filled these structural post-holes and slots that the structure had been dismantled prior to site abandonment and would have originally been of post and beam construction. (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 Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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