County: Kildare Site name: CURRAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0956
Author: John Channing, for V.J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 675515m, N 712292m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.155770, -6.870916
Construction of the Kildare Bypass unearthed several charcoal scatters on the Curragh, Co. Kildare. Further investigation revealed eight circular pits, varying in diameter from 1.4m to 0.4m and in depth from 1m to 0.2m. The features were spread out over an 80m stretch of new road construction, with no obvious pattern. The pit fills were similar, consisting of burnt stone fragments, charcoal and silty clay.
Stratford-on-Slaney, Co. Wicklow
