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
- 52.56683, -7.23719
- SMR number
- KK023-159----
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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 the S side of a U-shaped E-W valley adjacent to a tributary that joins the King’s River at the village of Ennisnag. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3617, Danesfort 13). Three pits, two of which contained lithics that have been identified as Early Mesolithic. The material included two blade cores, blades, flakes and debitage. The site also produced a very large late Mesolithic chert blade. A later ring-ditch (KK023-160----) and metalworking activity (KK023-161----) were excavated in the same area. (Jennings 2010, 245, 920; Jennings and Coughlan 2012)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 December 2013
References
Jennings, R. 2010 AR077, Ennisnag. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavatios 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 245, no. 920. Bray. Wordwell.
Jennings, R. and Coughlan, T. 2012 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4 – Knocktopher to Powerstown. Final report. Ministerial Direction: A032. Registration No. E3617. Site AR077, Danesfort 13. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.