Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
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
- 52.58480, -7.21538
- SMR number
- KK023-153----
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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 a low-lying basin within a gently undulating wide landscape. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3459). Four cereal-drying kilns were excavated in the vicinity of a pond (10m square). The kilns all showed evidence of intense burning in situ and were either circular or oval in plan. Two post-holes were found near the kilns but their precise function is uncertain. A sample of charred barley from one kiln returned a radiocarbon date of 184 cal BC – cal AD 56 (UBA-15559). (Jennings 2010, 241, no. 906; Jennings and Coughlan 2011)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 November 2013
References
Jennings, R. 2010 AR087, Danesfort. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 241, no. 906. Bray. Wordwell.
Jennings, R. and Coughlan, T. 2011 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4: Knocktopher to Powerstown. Final report. E3459. Danesfort 10. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.