Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Danganbeg, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Danganbeg
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49858, -7.24338
- SMR number
- KK031-098----
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
On a SE-facing slope. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3606, Area A). A cluster of post/stake-holes centred around a small pit in the north of area A. The pit contained three small sherds of middle Bronze Age pottery. Samples from this pit yielded a radiocarbon date of 1081-921 cal BC (UBA-14022). A second cluster to the S formed a rough NE-SW line, possibly representing a fence. One of these post-holes was radiocarbon dated to the middle Iron Age (356-117 cal BC (UBA-14021)). (Devine 2010, 242, no. 908; Devine and Coughlan 2012)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 November 2013
References
Devine, E. 2010 AR058, Danganbeg. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 242, no. 908. Bray. Wordwell.
Devine, E. and Coughlan, T. 2012 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4: Knocktopher to Powerstown. Final report. E3606. Danganbeg 1. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.