County: Louth Site name: NEWTOWN–MONASTERBOICE (Site 2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0796
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 704548m, N 780511m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.763703, -6.414300
The site was found by Kieran Campbell during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Northern-Motorway (Drogheda Bypass). It lay beside a stream on a gentle south-facing slope overlooking an area of fen-peat, some 15m to the north of the fulacht fiadh at Newtown–Monasterboice 1 (see Excavations 2000, No. 700), with which it is probably associated. Two small pits filled with burnt stone, ash and charcoal were found. There were no finds.
6 Riverview, Ardnore, Kilkenny
