Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Ballyshaneduff Or The Derries, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshaneduff Or The Derries
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10335, -7.14387
- SMR number
- LA009-040----
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Shown on 5 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
New monument discovered in 2003 during excavations of the M7 Heath-Mayfield motorway scheme by Jonathan Dempsey of Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd under licence number 03E0623. This site was located in an area of deep fill and was protected and reburied and preserved in situ.
Described as Ballyshaneduff or the Derries A this site consists of a subcircular pit with two fills which measured 1.1m N-S by 0.8m by 0.25m deep. This feature was probably associated with the fulacht fiadh excavated by Thaddeus Breen (Bennett 2006, 282).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.