County: Kilkenny Site name: ARDCLONE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0401
Author: Patrick Neary
Site type: Hearth
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 645633m, N 621170m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.340233, -7.330333
During the monitoring of the Piltown–Fiddown Road Improvement Scheme on the N24 Waterford to Limerick road in South County Kilkenny, a hearth was identified overlooking the Pil River, and an uncalibrated date of 1080±50 BP was obtained from the Department of Physics Radiocarbon Laboratory, UCD.
Excavation showed that this hearth was located on an earlier backfilled ditch, which extended outside the road-take area and had been cut into the underlying rock.
Finds from the site consisted mainly of burnt and unburnt bone, which seems to be of animal origin, a bead of bone or tusk/antler with a carved motif on its surface, measuring c. 10mm x 10mm, and a piece of blue glass with a decorated pattern in white and yellow along its length, measuring 12mm x 5mm.
24 Talbots Inch Village, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
