County: Kildare Site name: LOUGHLION (Site 8)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0846
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Project Director Valerie J. Keeley.
Site type: Pit, Structure and Cultivation ridges
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 671640m, N 711932m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.153072, -6.928925
On the line of the Kildare bypass, south of Kildare town, a small patch of burnt stones and dark soil was found during monitoring. When cleaned back, it proved to consist of three pits containing charcoal-rich soil with burnt stones, and a few other features. The pits containing burnt mound material were as follows: Feature 8 was an oval pit, 2m by 1.6m and 0.43m deep. It was flat-bottomed, with two stake-holes in the base. Feature 10, immediately to the east of Feature 8, was shallow and subrectangular, measuring 1.9m by 0.87m with an average depth of 0.15m. Feature 16 was oval, 0.6m by 0.55m and 0.4 deep. It lay 3.5m to the south of Feature 8. Four metres to the north-east of Features 8 and 10 were six post-holes or possible post-holes which may have formed part of a small square or rectangular structure.
Sixty-six metres east of the main site, a patch of dark soil with charcoal and burnt animal bone proved to be an oval pit, 0.9m by 0.5m and 0.34m deep, containing three fills, only the uppermost of which contained charcoal. Beside it was a smaller pit, in the bottom of which a small whetstone was found. Nearby were two more small pits, a possible post-hole and some spade cultivation furrows.
13 Wainsfort Crescent, Dublin 6W
