Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Earlsrath, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Earlsrath
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38784, -7.17149
- SMR number
- KK040-080----
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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
Excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Kilcullen Road Improvement Scheme (Excavation licence no. E2510). Two Early Neolithic pits located within the interior of and early medieval enclosure (KK036-065----). Radiocarbon dates of 3625-3373 cal BC (UBA-13484) were returned. The pits contained Neolithic artefacts such as pottery, a small stone adze or axe, flint debitage and rubbing stones. These were placed in the pits with organic remains (burnt hazelnut shells and emmer wheat) in such a way as to suggest ritual activity. (McKinstry 2009, 259-10, no. 1018; 2010)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 October 2013
References
McKinstry, L. 2010 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Waterford to Knocktopher – Phase 2 Archaeological Resolution, Dunkitt to Sheepstown Co. Kilkenny Final Report A032/000, E2510 Site AR030, Earlsrath, Co. Kilkenny. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Mckinstry, L. 2009 Earlsrath. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 259-10, no. 1018. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.