Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Iron Age
Baysrath (kells By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baysrath (kells By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48907, -7.24057
- SMR number
- KK031-078----
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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 2006-7 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Improvement Scheme. Excavation licence no. 2517, AR054, Area E. One of a cluster of monuments found in close proximity to each other in an area c. 1.8ha with dates ranging from the Late Neolithic to the early medieval period. Two overlapping circular ring-slot trenches (diam. c. 7m) very similar in form to the houses in the NE segment of an Iron Age palisaded enclosure (KK031-076----) to the S and interpreted as being contemporary. Another house (KK031-079----) lay c. 30 to the W. (Channing 2009, 255-6, no. 1003; 2010a, 234, no. 881; 2010b)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 September 2013
References
Channing 2010a Baysrath. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 234, no. 881. Bray. Wordwell.
Channing, J. 2009 AR053/54, Baysrath. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 255-6, no. 1003. Bray. Wordwell.
Channing, J. 2010b N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford: Waterford to Powerstown – Phase 2 Archaeological resolution, Final Report, 3 vols. A032, E2517, Site AR53/54, Baysrath, Co Kilkenny. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.