Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knockadrina, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadrina
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50414, -7.24342
- SMR number
- KK031-102----
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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
In an area of low-lying pasture. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3677). A subcircular possible trough (1.5m x 1.3m x 0.52m) filled with heat-shattered stone and charcoal-rich soil and a number of pits, the largest of which (3.5m x 3.5m x 0.9m) contained a silty fill with charcoal inclusions. Other pits were filled with charcoal-rich silty clay as were a number of possible post-holes and stake-holes. These formed no particular pattern. A small fragment of ash yielded a radiocarbon date of 2272-2039 cal BC (UBA-10989). (Lyne 2010, 243, no. 912; Lyne and Coughlan 2010)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 November 2013
References
Lyne, E. 2010 AR062, Danganbeg. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 243, no. 912. Bray. Wordwell.
Lyne, E. and Coughlan, T. 2010 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4: Knocktopher to Powerstown. Final report. E3677. Knockadrina 1. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.