Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- 52.58517, -7.21538
- SMR number
- KK023-154----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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. E3460). Seven pits filled with charcoal and heat-shattered stones. One of the pits contained stake-holes and resembled a trough. A pond 40m to the SW was the nearest water source. A post-medieval boundary cut through several of the pits. (Jennings 2008; 2010, 241-2, no. 907)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 November 2013
References
Jennings, R. 2010 AR088, Danesfort. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 241-2, no. 907. Bray. Wordwell.
Jennings, R. 2008 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4: Knocktopher to Powerstown. Preliminary report. E3460. Danesfort 11. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
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