Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt pit
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
- 52.50265, -7.24333
- SMR number
- KK031-101----
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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 W-facing slope in heavily ploughed agricultural land. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3671). An oval-shaped pit with a small flue extending at SE and evidence of intense burning. A single deposit contained a mixture of burnt clay, charcoal and other waste material. Three pits found 8m to the E and SE were interpreted as waste pits. A sample of charcoal from the fill of the pit returned a radiocarbon date of 750-408 cal BC (UBA-14026). (Devine 2010, 242, no. 910; Devine and Coughlan 2011)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 November 2013
References
Devine, E. and Coughlan, T. 2011 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4: Knocktopher to Powerstown. Final report. E3671. Danganbeg 3. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Devine, E. 2010 AR060, Danganbeg. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 242, no. 910. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.