Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Rahard West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahard West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33979, -7.16230
- SMR number
- KK040-077----
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
Discovered during test-trenching in advance of the proposed N9/N10 Waterford-Knoctopher road scheme and excavated in 2006 (Excavation licence no. E2503). The remains comprised two short square-ended ditches, a linear feature and a hearth. A date of 881+/-22 BP (AD 1047-1218) was obtained from the hearth. Two domestic implements, a stone polisher and a rubbing stone were found. These could date from the Neolithic to the early medieval period. (Laidlaw 2009, 253, no. 994; Laidlaw 2010)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 28 August 2013
References
Laidlaw, G. 2010 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Waterford to Powerstown – Phase 2, Archaeological Resolution, Final Report E2503, Site A032/000, Rahard West townland, Co. Kilkenny. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the Heritage and Planning Division, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Laidlaw, G. 2009 AR17 and 18, Ballykeoghan: linear features and hearth. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 253 (No. 994). Bray. Wordwell.
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