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Burnt spread

Sheepstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burnt spread, Sheepstown, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Sheepstown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.48006, -7.24030
SMR number
KK031-074----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In boggy grassland under pasture. A burnt spread excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Powerstown realignment. Excavation licence number: E3017. The remains comprised a deposit (max. L 3.75m; max. Wth 2.8m) of black friable silt, charcoal and heat-cracked stones located close to and truncated by a modern ditch. (Channing 2008; Channing 2009, 252, no. 990)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 27 August 2013

References

Channing, J. 2008 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Waterford to Sheepstown – Phase 2, Archaeological Resolution, Final Report E3017, Site A032/000, Sheepstown and Ballygeardra. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the Heritage and Planning Division, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Channing, J. 2009 AR048, Ballygeardra and Sheepstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 252 (No. 990). Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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