Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballyhale, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhale
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46473, -7.20235
- SMR number
- KK031-090----
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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
A burnt mound was revealed during test-trenching in advance of a proposed residential construction (Excavation licence no. 07E0524). The mound (c. 16.2m x 13.4m) comprised frequent to abundant small to medium pieces of rounded sandstone and large quantities of angular burnt stone and some charcoal flecks. Plough furrows had spread the material N and S (the dimensions cited include this spreading). A souterrain (KK031-070---) lies c. 145m to the N. (Henry 2007; Henry 2010, 232, no. 874)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 November 2013
References
Henry, M. 2007 Report on pre-construction archaeological testing at Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Henry, M. 2010 Ballyhale. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 232, no. 874. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.