2008:733 - RATHDUFF LOWER/RATHDUFF UPPER/ENNISNAG/HOLDENSTOWN, Kilkenny
County: Kilkenny
Site name: RATHDUFF LOWER/RATHDUFF UPPER/ENNISNAG/HOLDENSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 08E0422
Author: Tim Coughlan, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 652124m, N 644229m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.546898, -7.231495
Monitoring was carried out as part of the proposed N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Scheme—Waterford to Powerstown (land reclamation). This involved the monitoring of topsoil-stripping in four townlands, adjacent to the proposed route. In Rathduff Lower an isolated kiln was revealed and subsequently excavated (see No. 734, Excavations 2008, 08E0478). Monitoring in the remaining areas revealed nothing of archaeological significance, with the exception of the site at Rathduff Upper, where a small fulacht fiadh or burnt mound was partially exposed. This site was cordoned off and preserved in situ.