Field system

The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle S-facing slope in rolling landscape under tillage. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3575). A field system consisting of three E-W boundary ditches and an associated linear furrow. These were dated to the medieval period on the basis of medieval pottery (13th-century Kilkenny-type ware) in their fills. The boundaries extend beyond the limits of the excavation to the W. Post-medieval features including structures, linear drains, ditches and furrows relating to a farmstead were excavated in the same area. A field system (KK027-017----) lies c. 200m to the NW. (Kyle 2010, 250, no. 947; Kyle and Coughlan 2012)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 11 December 2013

References

Kyle, J. 2010 AR071, Kellsgrange. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 250, no. 947. Bray. Wordwell.

Kyle, J. and Coughlan, T. 2012 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4 - Knocktopher to Powerstown. Ministerial Direction: A032. Site name: AR071, Kellsgrange 1. Registration No. E3575. Final report. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.