Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Dangan (gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (gowran By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52650, -7.12672
- SMR number
- KK028-098----
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
Excavated in 2006 in advance of a proposed housing development (Excavation licence no. 06E0022). Three curving gullies, linked to each other were noted at the SW extent of the excavation. An oval pit (2.96m NW-SE; 2.1m NE-SW) with frequent flecks of charcoal and a number of scorched angular stones and flecks of burnt bone was found at NE along with a circular pit (1.95m N-S; 1.95m E-W) and another gully. The gullies may have formed a ring-ditch but as the features were badly truncated this could not be determined. Results of radiocarbon dates are awaited. (Wallace and McQueen 2006; 2009, no. 1011, 257-8)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 1 October 2013
References
Wallace, A. and McQueen, A. 2006 Phase 2 Archaeological Assessment at Dangan, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Wallace, A. and McQueen, A. 2009 Dangan. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 257-8, no. 1011. Bray. Wordwell.
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