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Earlsrath, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Townland
Earlsrath
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.38927, -7.17202
SMR number
KK040-084----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 Scheme (Excavation licence no. E3005). A curving boundary ditch (L 31.5m; Wth 1.5-2.25m; D 1-1.3m) with a V-shaped profile that cuts through two Early Neolithic houses (KK036-067----, KK036-068----). The full extent of the boundary is unknown but a number of test trenches excavated to the SE showed it to continue for c. 70m in that direction. The boundary was radiocarbon dated to cal AD 689-965 (UBA-14161). (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 Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.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.

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