Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
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
- 52.58197, -7.22055
- SMR number
- KK023-150----
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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 an undulating plain in pasture. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3537). A series of 8 circular pits (diam. c. 1m; D 0.25m) in no definite pattern, a post-hole and two possible stake-holes. Four of the pits and the post-hole contained sherds of middle Neolithic pottery. The pits may have been refuse pits for domestic waste. The pottery represented at least 3 globular bowls and distinctive sherds from one vessel came from the fills of two different pits and the post-hole. A sample of ash charcoal from one pit yielded a radiocarbon date of 3651-3526 cal BC (UBA-12203). (Devine 2010, 241, no. 903; Devine and Coughlan 2012)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 November 2013
References
Devine, E. 2010 AR084, Danesfort. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 241, no. 903. Bray. Wordwell.
Devine, E. and Coughlan, T. 2012 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4: Knocktopher to Powerstown. Final report. E3537. Danesfort 7. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
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