Burial

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, AR053, Area C. A dumb-bell shaped cereal-drying kiln in the SW quadrant of a ringfort (KK031-082----) (c. 3.5m from the inner edge of the fosse) contained a skeleton in its northern terminus although there was no clear grave cut. It was in an extended supine position with the head at the W. The kiln also produced disarticulated human remains from another individual with a suggested age of 6-7 years. These individuals were not accorded formal burial and may have been considered outside contemporary society. (Channing 2009, 255-6, no. 1003; 2010a, 234, no. 881; 2010b)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 25 September 2013

References

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 Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

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.