Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Kilcannon, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcannon
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52763, -6.54105
- SMR number
- WX020-096----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Kilcannon 3 (Hardy et al. 2010, 106-07). It is situated on a N-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge with a small SW-NE stream c. 170m to the NW. Full excavation (E4242) by B. Sutton recorded two pits. One pit (diam. 0.38m; D 0.07m) contained a sandy silt with charcoal inclusions and some slag. This produced a C14 date of cal. BC 384-205. The adjacent pit (dims 0.5m x 0.4m; D 0.3m) had a single fill consisting of a clay-silt with some charcoal. The unrelated fulachta fia (WX020-094----; WX020-095----) are c. 175m to the NW, and fulacht fia (WX020-097----) is c. 225m to the SSE. (Hull and Ruttle 2012; Sutton 2013)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 November, 2013
References
Hull, G. and Ruttle, E. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4242, Kilcannon 3. Stage (IV) Final Excavation Report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).
Sutton, B. 2013 Kilcannon 3: two pits. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 247, No. 773. Dublin. Wordwell.
Hardy, C., Nugent, L., Homan Reid, R; O'Liathain, N; Whitty, Y.; and Coleman, C. 2010 N11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme. Archaeological Consultancy Services, Stage (1)a. E4110. Testing report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished. TVAS (Ireland).
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.