House - Neolithic

The National Monuments Service's description

Excavated in 2006 in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Kilcullen Road Scheme (Excavation licence no. E3005). One of two parallel rectangular houses (see KK036-067----), both orientated NE-SW, and c. 4m apart The houses were cut by a large boundary ditch (KK036-070----). The NW house (c. 13.1m x 7m) was constructed with much shallower foundation trenches than the adjacent house. There was no evidence of the fourth wall to the SW but a shallow foundation trench might not have survived there. A number of internal linear and post-hole features may have represented some form of internal division. The earliest radiocarbon date for this house was 4227-3970 cal BC (UBA-14159). One of four small pits (KK036-069----) to the NE of the house was radiocarbon dated to 753-413 cal BC (UBA-14156). (McKinstry 2009, 260, no. 1019; 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, E3005 Site AR031, 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 Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.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, 260, no. 1019. Dublin. Wordwell.