Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
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
- 52.56496, -7.23870
- SMR number
- KK023-156----
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
In a valley overlooking a small stream. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3616). A rectangular trough (2.05m x 1.65m x 0.65m) with adjacent lines of post-holes, several associated pits, and a furnace represented a possible area of metalworking. Elements of a flat cemetery lie immediately to the N and S (KK023-155----). (Jennings 2009; 2010, 244-5, 919)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 December 2013
References
Jennings, R. 2010 AR076, Ennisnag. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavatios 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 244-5, no. 919. Bray. Wordwell.
Jennings, R. 2009 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4 – Knocktopher to Powerstown. Preliminary report. Ministerial Direction: A032. Registration No.: E3616 Site AR076, Danesfort 12. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.